Posted on 04/10/2017 7:37:53 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
“No, this is wrong,” a woman shouts at security officers in the video.”Oh my God, look at what you did to him!”
A disturbing video was uploaded to Facebook by Audra Bridges Sunday night. It shows a full United flight sitting at a Chicago airport and bound for Louisville. But there was a problem – United had overbooked the flight, they needed four seats for their stand-by crew and no one was volunteering to give up their spot.
That problem led to a violent confrontation as security forced one passenger off the plane, who said he was a doctor and couldn’t take a later flight because he had patients to see at his hospital in the morning.
Bridges, a Louisville resident, told the Courier-Journal that United announced in the terminal Sunday night that the flight was overbooked and offered passengers $400 and a night at a hotel to give up their seat and opt for a flight at 3 p.m. on Monday. No one volunteered, and passengers boarded the flight. United told the full flight that they couldn’t take off without the four seats, then upped the offer to $800 plus a night at a hotel, but still no one volunteered.
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“I think if I were to be chosen to leave the plane I would have done number 1 or even number 2 in the seat.”
Stop it, no you wouldn’t.
Wow.....a quad. I have never even had a deuce.
I was at an aircraft museum and one of the docents said it’s easy to tell if your commercial pilot was previously Navy or previously Air Force. Navy pilots are trained to land on short runways of aircraft carriers and Air Force are trained to land smoothly on long airways. So if the pilot sets it down abruptly, he/she was probably former Navy.
I think folks on Jury Duty get more than that.
Not true. Read your contract of carriage. Know your rights.
Many circumstances require the airline to pay you cash, not a voucher. If they offer you a voucher, you have to ask for money instead.
Plus if it is the airline's fault, not something like weather, there are circumstances in which you get paid 4x the price of your original ticket.
Check in 24 hours in advance? That’s standard. I did that Saturday for a flight yesterday. I think most airlines have that - if not all.
"...Read your Contract of Carriage. Know your rights..."
That post was written with more than a bit of sarcasm directed to the idea that United should have used a ‘first come first served’ method of bumping passengers.
I confirm in advance too, expecting a seat once I do, or at a minimum, a civil response from the airline if too many people show up.
He wasn’t injured? He was knocked out cold and bleeding, very clear from the video, yet you comment he wasn’t injured?
Here’s the deal, though: They were already on the plane and seated.
“disgusted” passengers unwilling to give up there seats...
ha ha ha!!!
their seats...
The passenger was grappled by the police and jerked hard enough to propel his face into the armrest across the aisle, resulting in a severe enough laceration to cause significant bleeding, which is visible as blood streaks down his chin, when he boarded the plane a second time, prior to his final removal.
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Bums on Greyhound Buses are treated with more dignity...
Thank you !!
I thought so.
What do you suppose would vhe happened if someone had changed his or her mind and decided to take United’s money after they started dragging this guy off?
From what I can tell there are 35,000 negative comments. I read several by CEO’s of companies saying no more United bookings for their people.
I wouldn't say a word to United. I would have a skilled, ugly lawyer do all the talking.
Sounds like United has become a target.
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