Posted on 04/15/2017 1:23:22 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Adding insult to injury: United did NOT take passenger's bags off his plane after he was dragged off - then sent his luggage to the WRONG address hundreds of miles from where he was hospitalized
The doctor dragged off a United plane in scenes which created global outrage was further insulted when the airline withheld his luggage, sending it on a convoluted path home.
Dr David Dao was accused of refusing to give up his seat on Sunday's United Express flight UA3411 flight from Chicago to Louisville for the airline's staff.
Cell phone footage then shows the moment when he was forcibly and violently removed from the airline by heavy-handed Chicago Aviation Security police officers.
Now, it has been revealed that on top of being forced out of their seats and off the plane, the airline did not take the time to release their luggage to Dr Dao and his wife, instead sending it back to Kentucky and leaving them with nothing.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I hope his attorney makes a good paycheck from United.
Not for UAL and the City of Chicago. As for the 3 officers, it might be a good idea to hire the best criminal defense attorneys they can find.
Massive Security State + Bureaucracy + Crony Capitalism
Where? The link you provided in reply #18 leads to an entire FR thread of 293 comments, as of this writing; How the United Passenger Suckered Us.
Your freep handle does not appear among the comments, nor shows comment made by yourself on that thread listed from http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:robertdelong/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change
That would logically enough lead a person to think you had supplied the wrong info for the link to "We shall see" in reply #18, or as remote possibility(?) you are Michael Fumento, the author of the Canada Free Press article at the thread you had linked to?
C'mon man, please, if linking to one of your own comments, go to the comment itself, without scrolling over and highlighting right-click on the number at the bottom of the comment, then copy the link from there, as choice to do so would appear in the small command 'window' that opens.
Is that too much to ask?
Its almost guaranteed United will settle.
I'm surprised that more airlines are not taking advantage of this, so it does not surprise me that Delta says they will pay up to $10,000 to give up their seats on overbooked flights. Because stating that and delivering that are two different things. Besides I'm not even sure what kind of traffic Delta even enjoys. Perhaps they only wished they had the traffic to overbook in the first place.
But I stand by my prediction, nonetheless. 8>)
We shall see how it plays out.
Hey, if Casey Anthony can beat a 1st degree murder charge that she was guilty as can be of committing, then justice really does come down to the feelings of the jury. UA is smart enough to know to delay this as long as possible to push it from the minds people currently have of this case. In the meantime stuff will continue to be discovered about Dr. Dao which may or may not have a chilling effect on his case. But in the end, UA did not do a thing to this passenger except bump him from the flight. Then they called in security when he refused. If anyone is to blame it is security who may have overplayed it. We will see if his injuries are real or not. His lawyers are saying that he may need surgery. Of course the elephant in the room is the word may. He may need a dentist, but I doubt he needs surgery.
But like I said, we shall see how this plays out.
Ya know, if the man-toddler hadn’t screamed like a spoiled 3 year old then let himself get dragged like a 3 yo instead of walking off like a man, I might have given him a little bit of the benefit of the doubt but that scream told me everything I need to know about what he did.
There’s nothing “tough” about seeing things as they are but there is something realistic about it.
I think it’s safe to say this man-toddler isn’t right in the head which really has me wondering why he could ever practice medicine legally in this country. I would think it would take more than the maturity level of a 3 year old to get that medical license. Maybe not.
It doesn’t take a “tough” man on the Internet to see what should be obvious to everyone. Just someone who sees things as they are.
It doesn’t matter what UA or any other airline does; what this man-toddler did is etched in stone forever. Nothing can change it or the subsequent damage he caused or will cause. Take note of ticket prices today and then a year from now. Action/reaction. Pendulum swings both ways. Ying/Yang. Etc. Etc.
You’ll see.
Airlines know they are wrong and that is why they are scrambling.
Had he simply complied with the legal instructions given to him he would not have hurt himself.
I don’t think anyone knew it at the time but it’s obvious to anyone this man-toddler is a hamburger and a sammach shy of a Happy Meal on his best day. He probably should have been in a mental patient arm restriction gown. I imagine his days of flying commercial airlines are over with. He better hope he gets a big check so he can charter flights as needed.
I hope he doesn’t.
Any particular section we should be looking at?
So, the wife was also on the flight? Why didn’t she go ballistic or at least try and get him under control?
We flew from Fl. to Boston, the other day, and as we were boarding I noticed that the gate agent had everyone’s name and seat in her computer and they know who you are. My husband is Mosaic on Jet Blue and the flight attendants come up to him on every flight to let him know that they are at his service. Did they know that this Dr. Dao was a potential problem passenger?
United, the nightmare that keeps on giving.
Check out the terms of the contract the phoney drama queen agreed too, specifically the sections on why he can be kicked off and limitations of damages.
Once he is given a boarding pass and is in his seat, the rules change. There is a very specific list of reasons (rowdy, drunk, smelly, barefoot, etc.) that he can be kicked off the plane at that point, and the airline needing his seat is not one of them.
Now still at the gate is another story, and another set of rules, as is overbooking, which this was not.
Check out Rule 21 - Refusal of Transport.
This is the list of reasons a person maybe thrown off a plane. No mention of needing his seat for another employee.
I guess I’m having a slow moment.
I can’t figure out why United didn’t just charter a private flight for their employees...instead of booting customers.
In reality...it was the airlines problem, not the customers.
Another reason to not fly.
Once the bags are in the hold, it is very difficult to crawl around to find one bag.
I thought that, too, until I read somewhere he was screaming cuz he was being tased.
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