Include 5 free upgrades to 1st/Business with the money and you'd get some volunteers.
And it costs United virtually nothing.
Posted on 04/11/2017 11:59:06 AM PDT by ColdOne
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, is calling for a hearing the forceful removal of a United Airlines passenger from an overbooked flight.
“I deplore the violent removal of a passenger from a United Airlines flight this weekend,” Norton said in a statement Monday. “Airline passengers must have protections against such abusive treatment.
"I am asking our committee for a hearing, which will allow us to question airport police, United Airlines personnel, and airport officials, among others, about whether appropriate procedures were in place in Chicago and are in place across the United States when passengers are asked to leave a flight,” she continued.
Norton’s remarks come after a viral video surfaced showing the passenger being dragged out of his seat and down the aisle by three airport security guards after refusing to give up his seat.
ADVERTISEMENT United Airlines reportedly offered $800 to individuals who would voluntarily give up their seat, but not enough people offered. The airline then decided to choose individuals at random.
“The only information available has been that perhaps $800 was offered to leave the flight. Federal rules require airlines to give passengers four times their fare or up to $1,250 if they are bumped from an overbooked flight,” Norton said.
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Well as it’s said, I just drive the bus.
Include 5 free upgrades to 1st/Business with the money and you'd get some volunteers.
And it costs United virtually nothing.
The Captain isn't the person who decided to bump 4 paying passengers in order to relocate some United crew. Whoever made that decision was just trying to take the cheap way out, and needless to say it backfired. So far this mess has cost the stockholders of United more than 500 million dollars, and undid the effects of millions of dollars of advertising.
For a few hundred more dollars United could have gotten volunteers, but they were too cheap to do that.
And regardless of the history of the passenger that was injured, it is now obvious to everyone that United cares a lot more about its employees than its customers.
A pair of pliers would have walked the asshole off the plane easily. It may have been noisy, but he would have deplaned.
PERFECTLY expressed. The elite really don’t “get” us little folk, not at all.
Smart Republicans should get out in front of the issue. It is really simple to end the problem of passengers getting bumped so that airlines can save money relocating their crews. Right now DOT regulations control many aspects of involuntary bumping. All that is needed is to increase the involuntary bumping fees to a large amount. If United knew it would have to pay, say $10,000 per passenger it bumped in order for one of their employees to take their place they would find another way to move their employees.
Doing so would have minimal effects on the costs of tickets since airlines rarely fly with any empty seats, and rarely do airlines have to bump passengers to move crew members.
The Captain is responsible for everything that happens on the aircraft.
Why has no one mentioned the Captain?
I did.
He was probably the one who called in the police.
Looking at similar flights from Chicago to Louisville, and having heard it was United Express, it was one of those little planes (under 60 seats) so removing 4 passengers (who were already seated) was a big deal.
An attorney on NBC affiliate last night said the airline would be right if they bumped you before boarding, but once seated the rules change in the passenger's favor.
I’ll bet that all rules end the same way.
“Or whatever the company or Captain want.”
“I think we only have one side of the event.”
True enough, however, the other side of the event can be nebulous regardless of video “evidence”.
Hearing?
Wasn’t it the (D), not long ago, bitching and moaning re: useless spending of taxpayer $$$ (by the (R), of course)...
Why listen to anything this crone has to say?
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