Posted on 04/11/2017 11:22:19 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
united
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.
“The officers who were involved work for the Aviation Department, which is not affiliated with the Chicago Police Department”
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Rent-a-cops. Ugh. Real police shouldn’t be tarred with these dimwit’s idiocy.
Figures. By all means follow the union rules, to he!! with customers.
“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?”
Yes, rental cars...doesn’t make it right, though.
Ivanka initiates /pffft
It takes four hours more to drive the distance.
Why not just rent a car for the employees?
Stupid people making stupid decisions !
Exactly. If he was a muzzle this would never have happened.
So when you pay for a seat, you don’t pay for the seat?
An agreed upon business transaction and exchange of goods has no reasonable expectation of fulfillment as agreed upon?
He paid for the seat.
The passenger was a convicted felon who through a hysterical fit, unlike the other three passengers that just walked off the plane. This is on him, not United.
I’m sure there was a POS - passenger of size onboard. They could have gotten 2 seats with this person. Find another, and voila, problem solved.
“So when you pay for a seat, you don’t pay for the seat?”
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I would say the guy was already “in possession” of the purchased product; he was sitting on it.
Last flight of the night. There were no other options. An ugly situation made worse by only one side of the story being told. The pax, a convicted felon who had been counseled more than once professionally over anger management issues, actually got off and ran back onto the airplane. Mrs cellphone omitted that fact while seeking her 15 mins.
UAL screwed up by boarding everyone and then trying to put the deadheads on. The rest is hysteria brought on by instant social media and a passenger opting not listen to LEOs AFTER he ran back on to the airplane..
Bumping a passenger is legal————annoying,but legal.
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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?
Great questions.
Also, UAL has a later flight, on that same route .... why not put the crew on that flight?
Delta and American also have later, same route flights.
Might not have been the answer, but just terrible how this situation was handled.
Sometime in the next 24 hours (if it hasn’t happened already), some far left kook will show up on CNN or MSNBC and blame this on President Trump.
“unlike the other three passengers that just walked off the plane.”
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You’ve run a criminal background check on them? Cool - I didn’t even know their names were made public.
I think the DNC thugs who started fights on purpose at Trump events now are suing for the “violence”.
Sure, pretend that this is United policy. If he’s hysterical and flails and cuts himself on some corner of a seat or something, yes, that’s Trump’s fault.
Good Lord, now he's a "convicted felon". By tomorrow he'll be an axe murderer. LOL
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