They overbooked, they ordered the hit.
Not true, and you've seen enough of these threads to know that.
LOL!...............
A situation came up where United needed to get 4 people to Louisville. So 4 people needed to give up their seats. 3 people volunteered, but it wasn't quite enough. And the rest is history.
The flight was not overbooked. United has finally admitted that much. They wanted to throw off paying customers in order to get a crew to the destination at the last minute. They should have continued to up the price of the compensation until they had 4 volunteeers.
HAS THE IQ OF FREEPERS DROPPED SIGNIFICANTLY RECENTLY?
THE AIRLINE DID NOT ‘OVERBOOK’ ON PURPOSE AND THEN SUDDENLY DECIDE THEY WANTED TO GIVE PAID SEATS TO NON-PAYING AIRLINE EMPLOYEES.
WHEN THEY HAVE TO MOVE PILOTS AND CREW THEY HAVE NO CHOICE. OTHERWISE HUNDREDS OR THOUSANDS MORE PASSENGERS WOULD BE DELAYED AS PILOT SHORTAGE CASCADES OUTWARDS.
IF A FLIGHT IS CANCELLED OR DELAYED AT A *DIFFERENT* AIRPORT, THEN THE DESTINATION NEEDS NEW PILOTS.
GOOGLE “MUST FLY” - THEY HAVE NO CHOICE IT IS ACTUALLY LAW.
That's a gross mischaracterization. What is your agenda?
The flight crew requested help removing an out of control mentally disturbed passenger with 80 or so other passengers aboard.
Calling that "a hit" is a remarkable, puzzling interpretation of what actually happened.