I’m not sure they did the right thing, marketing wise, but the fact is that once the airline wants you off the plane and you refuse, you will be forcefully removed. That’s how it works.
That’s what happened at Woolworth’s in Oh Brother Where Art Thou.
There is another video...the guy was screaming and irrational. When he fell, he hit an armrest and that was why his mouth was bleeding.
(stuck in Cleveland)
They don’t mind the tyranny of the TSA. What’s their problem with this?
This is a private, free market problem. There does NOT need to be government oversight or “hearings” every time someone has a problem. While you’re at it, congress, get the #@$# out of health care!
I’ll bet the U.A. employee who took his seat felt uncomfortable the entire trip.
So much stupidity all around...do we really need to add more?
US based airlines have become worse than most 3rd world airlines
Why does Congress constantly act ahead of the courts, and not where they have direct oversight - the federal executive agencies.
I agree United likely erred. But the first order of investigation may be the FAA, or some low level of the DOJ, and of course the passenger’s own rights in the civil courts.
AFTER all that, and all the evidence has been measured in the protections of the courts, THEN Congress could question NOT United, but whether or not all the federal agencies did their jobs.
At this early stage of things, it is just political grandstanding acting as if there was no other possible redress of any grievance than Congress. Nonsense.
Nobody is saying a word about the Captain of this airplane.
Airplane Captains have the final say over anything within the aircraft.
Why is no one talking about the Captain?
We’re all mad at the clerk and security, but I’ll bet anyone it was the Captain who made the decision.
Who is he/she?
The “dems” need to do a car wash and have a bake sale to pay for their goofyass “hearing”. Norton can be the vacuum cleaner guy.
She can call for a hearing on the matter all day long but Congress needs to stay out of it. This is another gotcha moment coming from the Democrat party and Republicans better not fall for it.
File this story under:
“More dumb management decisions from MBA’s making millions of dollars a year.”
What will be the final cost of this bad decision and the resultant negative publicity?
It has to be astronomical.
And the airline could have easily avoided it by raising the money offered for people to voluntarily leave the flight until they got the 4 seats they wanted.
At some level higher than the $800 they offered there would have been people willing to give up their seats.
It might have cost them a few thousand dollars but that is a mere pittance compared to the millions in bad publicity and loss of customer confidence and loyalty.
And you know darn well there is a big lawsuit headed their way.
A dirtbag doctor with a dirtbag past in kentucky.
The arsehole should be charged with a felony for interfering with a flight crew.
Bumping people because of overbooking happens hundreds of times a day...The difference in this case, a hysterical drug addled drama queen
They should have tazed him early on before all the yentas on the flight got their panties in a wad and their iphones out.
If the Democrats are calling for a hearing on behalf of this passenger, then you are going to have to excuse me from the jury because now I know he must have done something wrong.
They always (and Republicans too!) do this! Remember the wardrobe “malfunction” at the Super Bowl? They’ve been doing this sort of thing for decades if not years. Anything to avoid handling the people’s business!!
Trump get’s it!