Posted on 04/16/2017 5:02:40 PM PDT by LouieFisk
United Airlines just can’t seem to fly under the radar.
A Utah man and his fiancée say a U.S. Marshal booted them Saturday from a Houston flight en route to their Costa Rica wedding after they changed seats without permission — the latest in a string of negative headlines for the bedeviled company.
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More to the story? This seems odd.
Part of the free sh*t army...
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“These passengers repeatedly attempted to sit in upgraded seating which they did not purchase and they would not follow crew instructions to return to their assigned seats,” the airline said.
United announces new seating options: First Class, Business Class, Economy Plus, Cardiac Arrest and Fight Club.
“...after they changed seats without permission...”
The idiot media has decided it LIKES these stories.
“The public UNDERSTANDS stories of this type...”
It’s SO insulting.
Someone breaks a NAIL on a flight..?
SOMEHOW they will make it the work of some DASTARDLY airline person.
They get a narrative then WORK IT, WORK IT, WORK IT, right into the oblivion.
Cuz they think we’re idiots.
Uh, if anybody was sleeping in my assigned seat, I don’t have a problem waking them up or calling the flight attendant. I wonder if they moved up to an exit row or something roomier.
United’s severe overreaction during the Chicago incident — and its subsequent response — are going to be trouble for the airline. Passengers may come to the conclusion that United cabin crews will not respond to any situation for fear of a Chicago repeat. Jerks like this bride and groom will see this as license to be disruptive.
I need to know more about it. If there are two open seats in coach and the door is closed, who cares that they sit there? It’s not like they are opening the door to let more people on.
Those were TSA Air Marshals and the airlines has no control over what flights they are on.
I suspect that the widely reported issues arise more commonly with the older female flight attendants and the male ones.
The airlines treat us like crap. I’m sick of it.
Glad there’s some blowback.
Can’t tell anything about this one since the passengers’ story is completely different from the flight attendants’ story.
“I don’t have a problem waking them up or calling the flight attendant.”
Exactly right.
There was even a little bitty button right in front of their faces they could’ve pushed to call the attendant (while they stood overlooking their occupied seats).
Did you read Post #3???
The descriptions suggest that they moved to “United Economu Plus”. You get five more inches of leg room for a significant fee. I was on a recent flight where they wanted 79 bucks for this.
United has always been of the opinion that they’d rather have empty, unsold seats than make customers more comfortable for free.
When Contintenal was Continental, they upgraded everyone possible, so that the only empty seats were the terrible middle seats and those nearest the bathroom.
Now CO is gone and they’d rather see customers pissed off. Way to go, United! So much for “The Friendly Skies.”
Once the plane is in the air, we have often changed seats. Big deal.
Yes, they could have wakened the guy sleeping in their seats. But instead they simply moved to another seat in a half empty plane. Again, big deal.
You could get the idea that United doesn’t have any respect for their passengers.
“Can’t tell anything about this one since the passengers’ story is completely different from the flight attend.”
Completely different? Amish?
Did you read post #3, or the article? They moved to seats that cost more (since they have extra legroom - a common option on many airlines these days) without paying for the upgrade.
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