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.
Keeping that one.
I believe it. Since deregulation, the "hub" geometry now in use and cost-cutting in general means that there is absolutely no margin of any kind or room for error or even bad weather anywhere. There are no extra planes. There is no extra time. There are no extra crews. There are no extra runways. If any one of those goes wrong for any reason, whether it's breakdown or weather or sickness or a Captain stuck behind an accident on his way to the airport, it ripples to the next flight, the next plane, the next city. And maybe that ripple causes other ripples.
How many times have we heard that a flight going from A to B was delayed, therefore 10 flights at B waiting for its passengers coming from A had to wait before they could go to C and D and E and F. And maybe furthermore those delayed flights from B to C and from B to D meant that flights out of C and D were delayed too.
And then as those flight delays accumulate, now somewhere one of those crews has been delayed so long that they aren't allowed to be the crew on that last flight, and now somebody's delayed because that flight needs a new crew.
“Yeah, then United buggered up their own procedure.”
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Yup - from your link:
“ if nobody volunteers, they can deny people boarding “involuntarily in accordance with UA’s boarding priority.”
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He, along with other passengers, had already boarded and waiting for takeoff. Should’ve been handled at the gate or other pre-board time.
so true. And real Leos would never in a million years leave a recently unconscious man, with a head injury, unattended in such a way that the man was able to run back onto the plane and clutch at the wall, terrified and in even worse shape than he was dragged out. No way no how.
Exactly, it’s just a spoiled self entitled person who refused to cooperate and then ran back onto the plane. The news from today about the doctor further solidifies that. Control issues, trouble telling the truth, “magical thinking”, etc besides the fraudulent prescriptions, poor medical knowledge, and trading drugs for gay sex. By acting like a crazy person he ensured everyone wanted to know who he was and in this day and age that means your life story is spread by the media, which I imagine he would have liked to avoid.
It has sparked a pretty emotional response nationwide though.
I will be laughing if he is not the felon. THAT will be a serious lawsuit.
In a way I hate that there aren’t any more airships like that, it must have been absolutely amazing to float along in what was essentially an airborne luxury cruise liner, being able to take in the view, get up, move around, having dinner, going to the bar, settling down for the night in your berth.
He was treated worse than an illegal alien or a disaffected youth raping a French teenager.
I’d be careful identifying this man as such right now, there apparently are at least two individuals who are doctors by that name.
“I watched the video. Then listened/watched the author of the video on Tucker Carlson. Maybe I’m missing something, but I saw a crazy man running up and down the plane aisle acting like a spoiled, entitled child”
Me too. I saw a crazy man - period.
Prior to boarding the plane.
They boarded the plane.
Use of physical force by scruffy thugs wasn’t warranted.
(still stuck in Cleveland)
If I understand correctly, he was quiet but firm when he issued his first no and offered that he was a doctor who had patients waiting for him the next day.
Makes one wish that there had been a medical emergency on the flight and that they kicked off the only doctor on board.
“And real Leos would never in a million years leave a recently unconscious man, with a head injury, unattended in such a way that the man was able to run back onto the plane and clutch at the wall, terrified and in even worse shape than he was dragged out. No way no how.”
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This is a case where the old saying fits- “a dog shouldn’t be treated this way”.
Oh, there’s a Doctor on board... Shareholders’ Board.
Once the man refused to follow the directions of the flight crew, it would have been a simple matter for the captain to announce that he considered the uncooperative passenger to be a safety risk to the crew, to the other passengers and possibly to the aircraft itself. And that although the flight was not cancelled, under his absolute authority as captain the aircraft would not leave the gate until the uncooperative passenger returned to the terminal. Simple solution to the conflict.
But that isn’t what happened, not by a long shot.
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