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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Not sympathetic to this guy. And not one of the indignant passengers volunteered.
When told to get off the plane, get off the g-damn plane.
Once United’ called TSA, it was out of their hands
Our massive nanny state and their porno-scans will do whatever they want to citizens