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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I was on a United flight last year where they wanted $110 extra for those seats.
No takers. Six rows of seats stayed empty the entire flight.
Every airline has you sit in your assigned seats for take off.
They were wrong to think they could sit elsewhere for any reason and think it is no big deal.
I think the couple helped create their problem.
It does seem there is more to the story too than what was reported.
Hilarious.
“I recently found myself on an EVA flight to Taipei. Talk about stewardesses. Wow.”
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You gotta watch out about picking stewardesses on Thai airlines, tho - I believe they have tranny “stewardesses”.
>>>The flight attendants are typicaly females in that funky pre-post menopausal age and the males mostly see to have their own hormonal problems. Lake of testosterone. I don’t mind them as waiters—oops, sorry, “servers”— but on a flight I’d prefer to turn back the clock and have some flirt-worthy eye candy to serve me my coffee, water and nuts.>>>
LOL...true and hilarious. Thanks!
That’s for sure!
I always pay for the economy plus seating because I have circulation problems in my legs and feet. I sure would have a problem with people from economy moving to that section without paying the extra charge.
United has treated customers like SLF (self loading freight) for a long time, I avoid flying commercial and definitely avoid United.
nope a bus stays on the ground.
Planes need to get up in the air properly.
I fly united and another airline 4-5 times a year. Both airlines say stay in your assigned seats for take off and until they reach cruse altitude and pilot says its ok to move around.
I’ve seen numerous times people tried to move and were told to go back to assigned seat until they reach cruising.. Even on 1/2 empty flights. They announce on every flight it has to do with weight distribution for take off and climbing. I’d rather do as they say then have people moving around and possibly have some issue.
I wondered (but never asked before) if whatever number of people rushed the front of the plane flight 93 that crashed in PA, could be partly why it crashed as it did, not spread out but pretty much straight into the ground. I mean no disrespect to anyone who tried to save the flight, but I wondered if weight distribution can be a real issue on planes?
Houston HQ is alive and well:
https://www.yellowpages.com/houston-tx/united-airlines-corporate-office-houston
United didn’t do it the US Marshall did. That means that weren’t following the rules
My personal opinion is that they ought to rethink getting married.
Frankly these yobs were looking to get something for nothing. They wanted make an incident
“but I wondered if weight distribution can be a real issue on planes?”
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Not on any plane I’d get on!
How nice that you get to decide which seats you will take without permission, at the price you decide, no matter what the seller actually was charging. Be sure to take over a suite at the next NFL game while you’re at it, and get snippy when someone tells you to leave.
Yes there is. Bilge rent and wanting something for nothing. Not returning to their assigned seats after multiple requests
The way I read this is the couple upgraded themselves to economy seats with extra legroom.
In this one I have to side with United.
“Frankly these yobs were looking to get something for nothing. They wanted make an incident”
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And, again, United obliged them. Oy.
Kind of hard to boot you then.
Doing it beforehand both is taking a free upgrade, and probably more importantly, interfering with their pre-flight accounting.
When I’ve flown (Delta) where there were lots of empty seats, AFTER they did their counts and closed the doors, the stewardesses would volunteer it was OK to move up.
“In this one I have to side with United.”
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They should have had the stew wake the guy sleeping across their seats, the stew should have done so (whether they asked the stew to do so or not, anyway) - the guy moves, they get their seats and everything’s good.
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