Posted on 04/11/2017 7:48:10 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
The United Airlines passenger who was hauled off an overbooked plane is a poker-playing doctor from Kentucky with a sordid past.
Dr. David Dao, 69, who was captured in a now-viral video being forcibly dragged off the Louisville-bound flight at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Sunday, was working as a doctor specializing in pulmonary disease in Elizabethtown when he was convicted of trading prescription drugs for sex favors.
According to documents filed with the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, Dao was arrested in 2003 on the drug-related offenses following an undercover investigation.
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It’s not possible that United could not have offered enough money to get one person off that plane. Simply impossible. And it wouldn’t have to be a huge number. Just go up by $50 auction style until you get a taker. It’s the simplest and most fundamental law of economics.
Yep. And if the good doctor had been a muslim? They would have cheered on the beating?
Speaking of - a muslim will actually believe he has a legal right to chant Allahu Ackbar on a plane. Or disregard orders and get down on all fours to say prayers.
Has a muslim a right to be disruptive just so he can exercise his religion?
Not any more a right for a passenger to be disruptive simply because he bought an airline ticket.
And for frequent fliers (which make up the bulk of travelers), these vouchers mean virtually nothing when compared to their banked miles. I have several 100 thousand sitting there to use in my account. Why the hell would I miss my flight to take a voucher I need to spend money on to use?
I'm not one for over-legislating businesses, but over-booking (or in this case "bumping") needs to stop. A paid ticket should be a contract in favor of the passenger. With computers these days, there's absolutely no excuse for over-booking or not planning airline asset travel appropriately.
If Kwai Chang hadn’t been trading drugs for sex you wouldn’t be taking his side.
In your heart of hearts you know it’s true.
I don’t care if he murdered people in his past. He was a paying customer of United Airlines that was assaulted and abused on their plan due to their incompetence.
That's the only place where all responsbility belongs.
Sheesh! So if you were the doctor - you would not sue the airport police who did the beating?
And what about the responsibility for the doctor's actions? I guess you want to place 100% percent of his actions squarely on he, himself?
If so, then I agree. The doctor should take the blame for what HE did also.
I agree that United should have continued to up the “volunteer” incentive dollar amount until they got takers. That’s the way I’ve always seen it done. I once had my entire family get another day added to a vacation with the airline paying us $400 per person as well as decent hotel accommodations.
Wow. So its worse than I understood. They weren’t bumping him for another paying customer, they were bumping him for the convenience of United employees.
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If this is what you understood. Then you understood wrong.
Amen to that. I don't fly, unless there's absolutely no other choice. Drives Mrs WBill bonkers sometimes. Sez me, I've sat for far too long in far too many airports.
There's absolutely no reason to make a scene when you get bumped off a flight to a destination that you can reach in a rental car in four hours.
LMAO.
The second you look at passenger REACTIONS you are attempting to absolve some or all of United's conduct.
Where have all the conservatives gone on FR?
About 40% of my job involves booking travel for executives. When it come to flights anything and everything can happen. It may not be pleasant, but if you get bumped from a flight the best things to do is get your stuff and peacefully disembark. The minute your put up a fuss or a fight you are asking for trouble. If the airlines has wronged you, then take it up with them after-the-fact. The airline has every right to remove you from a flight. That’s the way the cookie crumbles.
This isn’t part of the story. It is an irrelevant hit piece.
One more thing, this is not a conservative or liberal issue. Once you act out on the plane, you pose a threat to everyone in it.
The contract between United and the passenger, called the contract of carriage, covers an overbooking scenario which United followed. The overbooking scenario also conforms to the applicable governmental regulations on how to handle it and maximum compensation. He doesn’t have a leg to stand on in terms of a lawsuit for just being booted because United (and every other American airline) does have the legal right which you agree to when booking. For that reason, a lawsuit based on just the overbooking issue would fail.
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