Posted on 04/16/2017 5:02:40 PM PDT by LouieFisk
United Airlines just can’t seem to fly under the radar.
A Utah man and his fiancée say a U.S. Marshal booted them Saturday from a Houston flight en route to their Costa Rica wedding after they changed seats without permission — the latest in a string of negative headlines for the bedeviled company.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
The “better” seats belong to the airline. They get to decide who gets them. Virgin America chased out exit row campers recently.
However, free upgrades to unsold premium seats makes for better customer relations. Plus the experience may sell a future upgrade.
Shortsighted policy if you ask me.
My friend was flying to NYC and they came on in the gate area and said we have got to get 16 people off this plane - but I think that was because they had to take on more fuel due to a weather situation. Still...
It would be an easy ruse for a terrorist to expose the air marshal by having someone purposely make a scene.
-PJ
One question is how that severely troubled airline was able to take over Continental. I blame obama.
“She wanted to sit next to her daughters who were in a bulkhead seat.”
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If the daughters were little children that wouldn’t seem like an unusual request. If they are old enough to know their way around, then it’s another story.
Let’s all LOOK AT THE SQUIRREL!!! and ignore Obama’s spying and Lois Lerner’s crimes like good little Pavlovian dogs.
Sounds like a legitimate booting. Self service upgrades are frowned upon. Plane was probably too big for it to create a weight and balance issue.
As a little boy in 1950 I got to ride for a while on the pilot’s lap—and no, gladiator movies weren’t discussed.
On a completely different note, the Japanese airlines show (or at least did) a pilot’s-eye view of takeoffs and landings. The landings are particularly fun because they turn the camera on a good ten minutes before touchdown.
I did a bit of international flying a while back on Singapore Air and Qatar Air and their flight attendants were more of the type you described from the old days - although there were some male stewards. Not trashy and short skirts or anything, but very much in bloom, as you said.
Did this happen to your friend tonight? Is she on Eric Bolling’s plane?
“However, free upgrades to unsold premium seats makes for better customer relations. Plus the experience may sell a future upgrade.”
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Indeed.Good free PR to bump people up a class when you got otherwise empty seats.
>> Now CO is gone and they’d rather see customers pissed off. Way to go, United!
Sorry - wrong! Continental is the surviving carrier - they just kept the United name.
(I’m a retired B-767 United Captain)
Who decides which passenger’s get the free upgrade.
Is it whoever can cry and bitch the loudest.
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No it was a week or more ago.
“Plane was probably too big for it to create a weight and balance issue.”
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I dunno that I’d get on a plane where they told me I had to sit in “seat X” so the plane can be airworthy. I might check out a diet plan afterwards, tho.
:D
>> This is not the whole story.
What’s the point of “the whole story” since histrionics and indignation are so much more rewarding? /s
They were old enough to get blitzed with their mom at spring break.
Captain,
I stand corrected, thank you for the correct information.
It’s odd that CO would be the surviving carrier but United’s corporate HQ in Chicago where the CEO sits. Whatever became of CO’s Houston HQ?
It can be an issue on the commuter planes:
Commuter plane crash stirs concern about weight and balance standards
http://www.timesonline.com/commuter-plane-crash-stirs-concern-about-weight-and-balance-standards/article_64a95a7f-04be-5ccb-803a-bb40a4302149.html
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