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.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Another thought, since no airline wants scenes like this on their own planes, maybe airlines should consider putting an agreement in place to provide emergency transpo for employees who’ve been bumped...
What if the ‘stand-by crew’ were Air Marshalls, and the threat level is elevated and we don’t know it? Only thing that explains this strong-arming. Besides Millennial employees.
Like you, I’ve been Johnny-on-the-spot for offers of less than $400 when I wasn’t on a tight schedule. Never have been selected though. I’m surprised nobody jumped on the deal as I’ve usually seen a line form to take such offers.
I don’t really care, frankly. I just don’t want to be dazzled by meaningless BS by some screaming little putz that said he was a ‘doctor’......I’ll be you that turns out not to be the case.
He was a man, supposedly, that didn’t want to abide by the ‘random lottery’ scheme proposed by the airline. Regardless the person now has a case he was cogent enough to overact that will give him a big settlement in return.
You can applaud it. I most certainly do not.
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.
“When can you land this plane?”
“Uh...I can’t tell.”
“You can tell me, I’m a doctor.”
Airlines are pretty sleazy. Are we sure the offer was for cash, or more likely for just a voucher for the chance to get another undersized seat on a flight that would probably also be over booked and late to boot?
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Yep.
3 of us got bumped off a UAL flight and were given vouchers. I noticed right away that one voucher was a dupe, and had the second passenger’s name a second time instead of the 3rd passenger’s. Was told by the gate agent who printed them it didn’t matter, any of them could be changed to another traveler when used anyway. Vouchers expired in 365 days. When I went to redeem them about 10 months later, I found out I only had 2 vouchers, as the duplicate was just a copy and left no record of the 3rd passenger who had been bumped.
(Insert plural word for son of unmarried parents here.)
Always more to the story than how the MSM tries to frame it.
Maybe a planeful of lawsuits.
Why, precisely, did passengers not disembark en masse? After all, if the airline could treat one passenger, at random, with extreme prejudice they can treat everyone the same way. An absolute boycott was in order. the sheep preferred slavery. They bleated a bit, a few of them. but they all kept their precious seats.
Airlines still think this is OK. The reality is that the airline offered $800 dollars to get someone to give up their seat. They are a public company. They should have offered $8000. That doctor could have given up over $800 if he had surgery or a full list of patients the next day. Airlines need to figure out how to run their company and deliver reliable service too.
United wanted to move a full crew to Chicago so they needed 4 seats. Of course why should we care. This is their problem not their passengers problem. United and their unions have a real problem with the idea of a service organization. They just don’t get it. They never have.
Oh I’m sure you’ll find more than enough flakes to pony up with a “I was startled, afraid, threatened, endangered bullshit.” “Gibmelotsa Money.”
LOL eyedigress was talking about Casa Grande last night and the first thing that popped was ‘*Over* Macho Grande?’
They did that a long time ago.
I would hazard to guess that if you read what is printed on a ticket (and you could ask) that these sorts of things are covered in the description. To me calling for a 10X payment for inconveniencing oneself seems drastic. We each have our own tastes, I guess.
I am no fan of today’s airlines. But I remember flying in the late 50s all through the 80s and parts of the 90s. Frankly, it was wonderful. Your mileage may vary, of course. It is when government inserted itself is when everything good about it went wrong.
FWIW, I think it’s less about millennial employees than it is about government regulation relating to those employees. :-)
Your customers plan and paid for their travel arrangements and unfortunately chose your sorry excuse of an airline to fly!
It's hardly their fault if or when you chose to overbook. It's not their problem - it's yours and the fact that you sent Chicago police to drag a paying customer out of his seat with force (that their sissy mayor cannot seem to muster up to shut down the mass murders happening each and every weekend) but can find the time to rough up a paying customer physically assaulting him in the process is shameful.
This is Obama's America/Chicago, not Trump's!
I was once on an overbooked flight to Phoenix. A person came up to where I was sitting and said I was in her assigned seat. I, er, let out a long smelly fart and she said ..never mind.
$800 would be very useful, but sometimes you have to get from point A to point B by a time certain, and the money won’t make up for it.
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