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.
Anyway, the unions are never going to allow that to be a regular practice, so I don’t imagine that driving crew around is a solution.
I was just going to post about “what if this guy was a muzzies”. Then every left wing libtard would be defending his civil rights. Instead, I see liberals defending the cops. What do you expect from a bunch of people who have wet dreams about a police state I guess
We almost never know in these situations the reason, and the airline doesn't tell us. In this case it was revealed because of the public nature of this story.
I think if he would have calmly responded and explained his situation, then a different outcome may have been possible. He didn't need to be hysterical.
One other thing was to charter a plane over at Signature or some other FBO either at O’Hare or Midway. They only had all night to get there.
(scruffy looking fellows)
“The officers who were involved work for the Aviation Department, which is not affiliated with the Chicago Police Department””
http://www.businessinsider.com/police-officer-placed-leave-dragging-united-passenger-plane-2017-4
Is there any other business where you buy the product or service (in other words, plunk the money down) and before you use the product or service the company can come back and say sorry, you can’t have it and we’re forcing you to give it back to us?
I don’t know how often these emergencies arise (crew have to get to another city and bump passengers), but they should either drive or fly on another airline or something. Sure, it may cost more for the airline, but how much is this incident costing them? They could have bought a lear jet to fly those 4 passengers and it would have been cheaper than this. Whose bright idea was it to drag a passenger off?
To top it off, this security guy is taking the fall for following orders. If he would not have gotten that guy off, he would have been fired. Now that there’s a crap storm about it, he’s still going to get fired. He was a loser either way. No video and United is patting him on the back saying good job.
Judge Napolitano this morning said this guy has a case against United and the police. Since no criminal laws were actually broken and the case was essentially a civil matter the police officer should have declined to participate. Any claim of resisting arrest or obstruction are mute since the officer actions were the cause of those action against himself.
I don’t know why we all accept as accurate the notion that this crew, and this crew alone, was the only one in the Midwest that could staff the flight in St. Louis that day.
Do any crew live near St. Louis?
Or how about crews in Dallas, KC, Detroit, Nashville, etc. who could have boarded a flight with open seats to get to St. Louis?
“The trespassers were the cops who tried to evict him.”
Trespassers?
Nonsense.
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I read that there are two doctors with the same last name and that the doc on the flight is not the same as the one with drug and sex charges. If true, not only will United be paying, but so will TMZ and a few other news outlets...
“Why not just rent a car for the employees?”
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First answer: Union rules
Second answer: Union rules means they are then on-duty, have to be paid, and the FAA duty-hours clock is running
Third answer: Time of arrival in Louisville would mean not enough resting hours left for the planned duty day the following day - FAA rules.
Wonder what would have happened if he was Muslim.
I think union rules.
“Just suppose: a m*slim acts in a threatening way on a plane. He is subjected to the same treatment as this guy. Instant sympathy from the left. America-hating lawyers call the guy. Democrat congressjerks demand an investigation. What say?”
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*Nobody* who’s minding his own business, just sitting in his paid-for seat should be treated that way.
The passenger was Asian. Have you ever told an Asian no? If so, I rest my case.
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Hei No Gyo
Judge Napolitano said this will be settled out of court. It wouldn’t look good for United to present it case to a jury with every passenger called as a witness for the plaintiff
No, it was airport rent-a-cops.
I am not sure how many other businesses are allowed to and legally can sell a product they don’t have which as far as I am concerned is what overbooking does.
To f’en bad if people cancel or don’t show up.
Do like the old days and have stand bye at the gate and don’t overbook.
well, the same should be true for employee personal. If the employees can't be there 10 minutes before "original" scheduled take off...then they shouldn't be allowed to take away someone's seat on the plane.
Looking back United should’ve flown them general aviation. The captain can make unilateral decisions regarding anyone on his flight and he can authorize any passenger be removed from the flight. I don’t think some gate agents and UA managers have this authority and can’t authorize a action involving LE to remove this guy. There are so many problems with case.
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