Posted on 04/11/2017 3:48:49 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: 'We will beat you so badly you will be using your own face as a flotation device': Jimmy Kimmel mocks United Airlines' overbooking controversy with fake ad starring a flight attendant wearing brass knuckles
Jimmy Kimmel has mocked United Airlines for allowing a 69-year-old grandfather to be aggressively dragged off the plane.
The talk show host blasted the airline on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Monday with a parody ad during the opening monologue. United landed in hot water after a video showed Dr Dao beaten and forcefully pulled off the overbooked flight from Chicago to Louisville.
The chipper flight attendant in the commercial says: 'We're United Airlines. You do what we say, when we say and there won't be a problem. Capisce?'
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It’s a lousy business model. If airlimes were actually serious about efficiency and customer service, they would transport their crews by some other conveyance, perhaps go in jointly and operate an RJ fleet to move their collective crews from point to point instead of taking up paying customer seats.
Oh crap!!!!! I just spit beer out my friggin’ nose!!!!!
Because United Airlines has a thug culture more suited to bouncing drunks at a roadhouse than running an international business.
You offer a big enough incentive, people will leave the plane voluntarily instead of having to use force.
You don’t hear these stories from Southwest Airlines.
“We beat you, not the competition.”
I was not aware that stadiums oversold their seats. Tickets have seat numbers on them and when they’re gone, they’re gone. I don’t mind the overbooking policy because it results in cheaper fares. Given enough incentives, there will be people to take the deal and leave the flight. I would have loved them to offer me a couple grand to stay up in the Seattle area for another day over the weekend visiting my grand kids.
“I was not aware that stadiums oversold their seats”
That’s the point dude!!! No other business does this! No other business over sells something then tells customers who have already paid for that item “oh sorry we over sold this you will have to get up and leave so someone else can have it”. Does that make freaking sense?
You sell tickets for stadiums seats and if no one shows for that seat no one shows for that seat, the game still goes on.
You sell tickets for an airplane, if no one shows for that seat, so what? The plane still flies. So why do they sell the same seat 4 times? The stadium would never do this.
Aren’t you the same person who was advocating that the flight attendants should all be Air Marshalls?
Now I understand why that United agent in San Francisco was so hostile fifty years ago when he handed me my ticket and snarled “here’s your ticket, baby-killer” - just part of the culture......
So, there.
No I’m the same person who thinks all airlines in America should be safe yet luxurious as El Al Airlines.
Yea I’m dreaming.
https://www.elal.com/en/USA/Pages/default.aspx
The airline could have had an auction.
The other passengers would have loved it.
And no you can’t have pilots driving overnight to fly an airplane.
Let’s see the investigation for that crash.
“What was the pilot doing for 24 hours before the crash?”
“Well, he was up all night driving a station wagon from Chicago to Louisville.”
“Oh, OK.”
Why is no one talking about the pilot of this plane?
The flight attendant would have let the Captain know that there was a problem.
The Captain is the final authority, but no one is talking about him/her.
No, I’m pretty sure you were cutting down the flight attendants on Flight 93 for not gunning down the hijackers and I think that is a little too much.
Back in the old days when they were called Stewardess, you were given excellent service with a smile and treated like royalty.
Now that they are called what ever, they act like Nurse Ratched, sometimes even before the plane takes off and the service? What service?
Looking at this through the eyes of the other passengers.Yes, United should have offered up the the max of $1250 for volunteers as I understand they stopped at $800. But what do you do if there are no takers? What does an airline do in the rare circumstance where either through their own incompetence or no fault of their own the flight cannot leave until the overbooked capacity is relieved. Four were selected randomly to leave the plane. Three complied. One did not. How long should the other paying passengers been required to wait while they negotiated with the fourth passenger to leave voluntarily so that force would be avoided. One hour, three, four? Should the entire flight have been cancelled and taxied back to the gate so as to prevent a show of force? Would the headline story then be passengers required to wait on runway 4 hours or flight cancelled because airline refused to relieve overcapacity?
An injustice was done to the doc. He deserves millions in compensatory and punitive damages.
That’s the max a passenger can ask for, there is no limit to what the airline can offer. And that’s also before the aircraft has been boarded.
They can throw in free upgrades for 1st/business class and other incentives that passengers would jump at.
Instead they chose to assault a paying customer like a drunk at a roadhouse who has now lawyered up.
The CEO tune has changed since this morning, I’ll bet United legal has had a rather somber conversation with him.
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