United made their bed, they will pay a very very high price to lie in it. Don’t have to like it but the simple truth is, United is the one to blame for the mess they have found theirselves it, no one else. They chose the course of action they engaged in, no one else.
They consciously decided to show ever single air traveler out there.. this is what United thinks of its customers... and if you think that all the spin in the world will change that, you are naive. United literally burned 10s of Millions if not 100s of Millions of dollars, in revenues and brand value by doing something so idiotic, even the Hillary Campaign wouldn’t have done it. ....
And that’s without the money they will in the end pay to this passenger and others because of this incident. United can argue it may bump a passenger per its terms for an employee it wants to move around... but it doesn’t have the right to bash someones head in in the process of doing it.
If you believe United was in the “right” here, you have a really warped world view. It is one thing to say United has the right to bump a passenger, it is quite another to say United can call in jack booted thugs to beat them up and drag them off the plane to exercise those rights.
You think the Airport police are on suspension because everything was “right” with what happened and was done? IF you believe that, naive doesn’t begin to cover your argument.
The flight was an 80 seat plane, if I am not mistaken... United wanted 4 of those seats for crew after it was fully sold and seated. So United wanted 5% of its passengers to give up their seats.. but offered only $800 in vouchers to attempt to get them... United chose to go vinegar instead of honey, reality is simple, they could have gotten those 4 seats voluntarily if they had offered enough for them... they didn’t.. now instead of paying out a few K to get them, they are paying MILLIONS in lost revenues and brand damage.... Stupidity... nothing but stupidity from the top down... and you think otherwise, go read United’s CEO’s first “apology”... This incident was the result of a systemic disregard for customers by united... It may have been an extreme example, but there is no doubt after the CEO’s first “apology” that disdain for the paying customer is systemic to United as a company...
Having your face bashed in and dragged off a flight is just a “re-accommodation” which in and of itself is comical, because how do you “re-accommodate” someone you never accommodated in the first place? Obviously having your face bashed in and physically dragged off a plane is considered being accommodated by United based on that claim.
United made its bed... and will be lying in it for a long long time.
Let’s not forget this criminal’s background, not to mention he’s a queer and a huckster. The passenger hauled off a United flight is a lung doctor with a taste for gambling, a history of angry outbursts — and a conviction for trading narcotics prescriptions and cash for gay sex in motels.
Dr. David Dao of Elizabethtown, Ky., confirmed Tuesday that he was the inadvertent star of a viral video stirring outrage around the globe and said he was undergoing hospital treatment in Chicago.
In an interview from his bed, Dao, 69, told Louisville TV station WLKY that he wasn’t feeling well.
Again, you’re thinking the same crowd that stood in line to get strip searched by the TSA are going to lift a single finger about this issue.