Posted on 04/11/2017 2:37:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The passenger is being treated for injuries in a Chicago hotel
United Airlines' parent company CEO Oscar Munoz on Tuesday apologized to the passenger dragged off a flight over the weekend.
"Like you, I continue to be disturbed by what happened on this flight and I deeply apologize to the customer forcibly removed and to all the customers aboard," Munoz wrote in a memo to his team. "No one should ever be mistreated this way."
Brief Marriage Preceded Fatal Calif. School Shooting The passenger has been identified as Dr. David Dao, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, NBC News reported. The Associated Press also confirmed that Dao is the man in the video.
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“Committed no crime”?
Have you not been following this at all? Right or wrong, when the Captain (or his crew) gives an order, it’s a federal offense not to comply.
“...there’s no excuse to act the fool the way he did.”
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True dat ... but the good doctor (allowed to practice only one day a week at an outpatient clinic after a ten year suspension from medicine) is also a professional poker player. So he gambled by going “all in” with his disruptive massive resistance & refusal to budge when asked to leave. It may pay off financially for him. In the future, more passengers may now be encouraged to refuse to leave when asked & become disruptive instead -— in the hope that they too can hit the jackpot.
Customer A walks into a privately owned business, asks them to create a cake which the business owners find offensive, so they refuse to take their money. The business is destroyed and the owners financially ruined.
Customer B buys a ticket, is welcomed onto a plane and takes his seat. He ends up getting bloodied and dragged off the plane because the business wanted to put some of their own in that seat. The CEO says sorry.
Moral of the story? Eat pie and take the train? I don’t know, I’m kind of stuck here.
“Put the employees in a rental car and have them drive.”
Time and duty rules kick in. The plane they needed to crew would be stuck. The dude was a childish ass. Nobody likes getting bumped, but it happens.
You don’t understand the aviation industry. Many times crews have to be, at the last minute, shuttled to other locations to complete a crew for a flight that would otherwise face delay or cancellation.
Might have done some good if he had done this initially. Now it’s pretty transparent that he’s just trying to salvage the mess he made.
The board should sack him and the entire PR team. They’d have to do better starting from scratch.
I don’t know what I would do. I’m fortunate in that I don’t have a job that I have to report to, so I don’t have to travel for business. Back in the day, I felt confident enough to travel alone, but I’m past that point now. Air travel today is one degrading experience after another.
Still, I am not fond of being bullied or being taken advantage of.
FALSE.
That’s ridiculous. United had no idea about his background. They sold him the ticket. It could just as easily have been any of us.
United Airlines: Where you pay to board an airplane as a doctor and leave as a patient.
If they wanted their personnel to travel on that flight, they should have offered enough to get a volunteer. This wasn’t some unforeseen issue.
The passengers on that plane should have forcefully mitigated the police. Cops with fifty angry citizens at their six and twelve would have ended this form of federal terrorism while flying.
The ignorant ass. More of that culture where they attack rows of riot cops with firebombs and sticks and wear banzai bandanas on their heads.
Just get off the plane. Complain or sure or leave a bad review like everyone else. Don’t sit there like a titty baby and make the cops have to drag you off.
Lol.... San Fran, San Fran... you know they will all be business meetings right? Salami conventions
And when that happens, they can offer enough to get a passenger to voluntarily remain. Just like Julian Simon devised more than 30 years ago.
I think every reasonable person would agree that the doctor was somehow complicit in what happened to him. Still, there’s a large consensus that the response to his recalcitrance was fairly over-the-top. Sometimes things aren’t as cut-and-dried as we’d like them.
Why was he complicit? He paid for a service. He expected to receive this service fairly.
Everyone was aboard and seated when the gateway commando decided to put 4 employees aboard.
They could have offered more than a $800 voucher but decided to use force instead.
Yeah. But especially don’t scream like an idiot - right.
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