Posted on 04/11/2017 11:22:19 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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Things aren’t looking very good for United Airlines at the moment. The airline is dealing with a public relations nightmare, their stock is tanking, and to top it all off, they are under review by the Department of Transportation.
The DOT announced last night that they’d be looking into United over how they treated the passenger who was physically ejected from their overbooked plane this weekend. Their statement says that the department will particularly examine rules regarding overbooked flights, as well as the procedures for dealing with fliers who refuse to give up their seats.
Fox News noted that the United incident has prompted calls for a congressional investigation and a review of policy. This comes after the Chicago’s Department of Aviation confirmed that one of the officers involved in the confrontation has been suspended from his job and will be investigated.
Accepting an offer to take a later flight happens all the time, but it is not “getting bumped.”
Getting bumped is being removed from a flight against your wishes.
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Well, that’s what happened to the three passengers that left the plane without incident. The four in total were selected randomly after nobody accepted the offer.
>People can tend to act a bit crazy after suffering a head injury, you know?
Absolutely ! Regardless , I stay off of planes.
Re “the flight was NOT overbooked.”
That was my take as well. But, the passenger removal should only be possible at the gate, before people are seated, not after, IMHO. That doesn’t mean that what they did wasn’t according to the fine print in the contract of carriage, but the procedure as followed goes against the common understanding of what that agreement is. No one could possibly read or be aware of every clause.
I believe you. No, really, I do. Just having a hard to picturing it, and you must be also ---or you would have posted a picture.
Not a vital organ. Just keep on going! We've got to win this.
unlike the other three passengers that just walked off the plane.
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Maybe the others weren’t being separated from the rest of their party like he was. Maybe they are OK with kowtowing to an abusive and unauthorized order by gate personnel. You do understand that the plane was not overbooked (that was a UNITED Airlines lie) ,, they merely decided (late) that they wanted to deadhead 4 of their crew. The ticket (contract) with UAL clearly states that if you are bumped you will not be boarded.. since they were already boarded it is the clear language of the contract speaking that you are immune to bumping. They broke the contract , humiliated him in front of the other passengers and the entire world, I believe they stun gunned him ,, and he suffered physical harm... but the best is the follow-up ,, the CEO gets out the old paintbrush loads it up qith hot gooey tar and paints him as being the root cause of the disturbance,, not UAL’s incompetence.
Are you going to just stand there, or go fishing?
And, so it goes....
Well, in any event, I saw on TV that the United CEO issued an apology. For what it’s worth, LOL.
He did it with all of the utmost sincerity he could possibly muster. Of that, we can be sure.
No /S needed, just implied.
It’s tough when you’ve got to balance legality with public opinion as a CEO. Legally, I bet that Gorsuch would find for the airline. If it was private security which was unnecessarily rough, he’d find against them. If it was the local cops, they’d be immune. “Enforce the law without respect to persons.”
Nevertheless, the court of public opinion will matter here, just as it mattered to Target. So, the Doc will get a marginal apology and a decent settlement offer.
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Uh, yeah.
In criminal court, perhaps. In civil court, the airline will lose. In the court of public opinion, the guilty verdict is already in.....and it does NOT favor United or the thugs.
I don’t know about civil court... but as you say, they are toast in the court of public opinion. Aggressively pursuing/defending the inevitable civil suit would make the toast even more well done, regardless of the outcome. I disagree—I think they’d win on contract details—but it would be a Pyrrhic victory.
Take a boy fishing?
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