Posted on 04/14/2017 10:48:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
There were actually four United employees who did exactly that... after the plane was fully boarded.
They should have called an Uber... would have turned out cheaper.
When you don't read the fine print you look stupid when issues come up.
I’ve been wondering that but haven’t seen it in print. Do you happen to have any links to articles that show this?
Exactly. Wonder if the fine print on the back of the ticket mentions the penalties if a CUSTOMER cancels at the last minute?
Does the customer get a full and prompt refund?
Bol! Incredible.
United: We treat you like a king...Rodney King.
Like the New York Times, you need a copy editor. Fixed:
'He was refusing to obey lawful directions from law enforcement officers'
If a black gangster refuses to get out of his car when the cops order it, everyone here will yell, doesn’t he know he wouldn’t get his ass kicked if he just cooperated with the cops. But when the security or cops tries to get a guy to leave plane, many here say, you cans’t forcibly remove him. He should have cooperated with the authorioties what happened when he refused was his fault.
Still can’t get it off caps lock?
You really need to read your comments to yourself - your first and third line regarding people of less than high intelligence and about playing lawyer - which I can safely assume you are not (while you go on in the next line to incorrectly assert a legal right of the airline).
FYI - the legal right to remove an individual from an aircraft is strictly limited by United’s Contract of Carriage Rule 21 which lists specific reasons - none of which were involved here.
That is akin to "Kelo in the air."
In the Kelo v. City of New London decision, the Supreme Court concurred that it is a "public good" for a city to condemn private property for other private use if that alternative use generates more tax revenue for the city.
If an airline can eject a seated customer for another customer who paid more for the seat, then we have chaos in air travel since nobody can be sure that there will be a seat at the other end of their ticket.
-PJ
The Dr. Dao on the flight is not the same Dr. Dao who’s the pervert. I imagine that’s going to be a different lawsuit.
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Can you please help me out and show me the source of the conclusive information, because I’ve seen it both ways?
“If a black gangster refuses to get out of his car when the cops order it”
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About your “black gangster” - he has a civil contractual agreement with the police? How much money exchanged hands?
I’d make it out of “Twinkies”...
No money in that law suit.
I recognize the fact pattern is completely different, and am not citing the article for the proposition that Dao was removed as a sfety risk.
My argument is only that United is going to lose more in the realm of public opinion, than it stands to lose in court or an out-of-court settlement.
Either party to a contract should be able to back out at any time. My contracts always had a penalty clause that allowed me to withdraw and either specified there was a penalty for nonperformance or specified that there was no penalty for nonperformance. That option to withdraw or to refuse to enter into a contract includes baking a cake celebrating a parody of the sacrament of marriage.
“Can you please help me out and show me the source of the conclusive information, because I’ve seen it both ways?”
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“No, the media did not identify the wrong David Dao as United’s passenger”
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-united-david-dao-20170412-story.html
Could you show us “stupid people” that right in writing. The lawyers seem unable to find it.
We see a very small part of the video, where a drama queen is performing at his best. I have not seen the rest of the fiasco, but I suspect it does not support the selected narrative.
No, once he was boarded he didn’t need to agree no matter what they offered. If it was preboarding you would be right.
“My argument is only that United is going to lose more in the realm of public opinion, than it stands to lose in court or an out-of-court settlement.”
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True. Paying out 5 or 10 mill isn’t a big deal. It’s the brand UA is worried about.
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