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 Chicagos OHare 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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And I would be pitching a loud fit as well if I was being forced off against my will.
I guess United didn’t offer him an “upgrade” he really wanted.
I fly about once a month and have learned.....don’t mess with airlines. Just don’t do it. They have all the power now and will not hesitate to boot you. This guy should have taken the offer or at least acted maturely and with reason.
Airlines are like cops now. They got the power, do what your told. It ain’t worth it. As Remo Gaggi said in Casino.....”Why take a chance. At least that’s the way I feel about it?” LOL
See #29.
I see United now offers take-out Chinese!
ha ha ha...
I see the United Airlines damage control hit teams are active and in full offense mode.
The doctor’s past performance has nothing (zero), the bear on this event.
He also, lost his license for over prescribing pain killers. Even this is hoaky, because he got a lawyer and got his license restored easily since he operated a pain management clinic. The DEA has made it a minefield out there for doctors. They would rather a patient suffer in pain.
So if they had offered sex he would have volunteered to get off the plane?
A lot of people here have obviously never read the terms and conditions on their airline tickets.
And, this has WHAT to do with the story of being dragged off the plane?
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Three of four people got off the plane peaceably and took their compensation. One guy caused a big problem.
Bears repeating ... many times.
First off, I think airlines treat people like cattle.
Now that I have that out of the way.....
Didn’t this guy get off the plane and then run back on?
If he runs back on to the plane with airline personnel telling him to stop, then he becomes worrisome to the authorities.
It’s one thing to stand at the ticket counter and scream, but it’s a whole different ballgame when you ignore the airline personnel and rush the airplane.
Everybody is a bit more cautious and focused after 9/11.
He probably just “freaked out”, but airline security is serious business.
This is nothing but a diversion, UAL still sucks balls.
I'm not surprised.
Airlines always overbook, because on any given flight there are a certain percentage of people who don't show up for whatever reason. But, it's a gamble each time to correctly predict what percentage won't show. If the airline chooses to gamble and make extra profits by overbooking, they should also gracefully accept their losses on the times when they lose the bet.
I've seen countless times when waiting to board and airlines start asking for volunteers. First they offer one ting, then if they don't get takers they just sweeten the pot... perhaps upping the offer to 2 or 3 free tickets in addition to passage on a later flight. A few times they've sweetened the deal so much that I've opted to take them up... but every time I did I was too slow and others beat me to the counter.
United really screwed the pooch on this one... surely they could have upped the offers to a point where they would have gotten 4 takers. The CEO then re-screwed the pooch by publicly defending what they did instead of issuing a profuse apology.
United's shareholders should hold that CEO accountable for causing so much damage to the brand with his idiotic handling of the situation.
Rarely does anyone dig up dirt on political dims though...strangely enough.
But it certainly is reasonable for an airline to have cops come on board and beat the crap out of Passengers!
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