Can we please stop turning all this airline stuff into the cause celebre`?
Seriously; they’re picking on every incident, which I’m sure have been happening all along. Nothing unusual. This is like the media “shark attack” stuff before 9/11 squelched it.
Media just looking for stories. Besides Trump-bashing.
While I see your point, I do take issue with the fact that we have an entire industry in the US that’s become abusive of its customers and ride with corruption. Consumers do have rights and I do think these stories are justified
Hey, the rubes gotta talk about SOMETHING!
And why would we want to do that. How is this any different than any other kind of abuse done to the public by a company? From my perspective, this disgraceful incident was far worse than the dragging of the recalcitrant doctor off of the UAL plane. This guy and his family were not belligerent, and yet they were threatened with jail for simply trying to use what they had paid for. The airlines don't need any more regulation, they need to be sued each time they do something like this. But the truth of the matter is that the airlines, like most of our large businesses today, are run by a bunch of Harvard MBA’s ( or some reasonable facsimile from another equally detestable place) who have teen taught that the bottom line is the ONLY measure of their success.