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Am I going to hell for chuckling at this?
At what point do you decide the endgame makes sense to fight with air marshals?
I wonder why the “Oh my God” lady didn’t agree to give up her seat so the guy could stay?
here is summary:
-united overbooked and needed 3 seats for “must board/fly” employees
-they asked for volunteers to get off flight
-no one volunteered so 4 ppl were picked randomly by a computer
-3ppl got out but this guy (doctor who had to be at work next am) did not
-united called law enforcement to get this guy off the flight
Exactly what I was thinking. It’s not like they just rush you and escalate force. They generally give you plenty of warnings that you will be forcibly removed. What kind of grown adult acts like this guy did? Screaming bloody murder and flopping like a dead fish because he has to miss this flight. Then the lady “Oh Maaiii Gawd. What are you Dewwwing to him. Look at what your Dewwwing!!.” I would have been laughing my ass off.
he did not fight. he refused to leave his seat.
its united’s fault for overbooking.
and they should of kept increasing the incentives until someone volunteers their seat.
i hope he becomes the largest United shareholder soon
No doubt he will. In that respect I give him props.
#AsianLivesMatter
Did they tase him?
'Merica
He hit the jackpot! Everyone involved needs to get fired ASAP. Should’ve handled it much better and just increased the switch offer until someone took it, now they are in for a big fat settlement and PR nightmare.
So many medical doctors are utterly self absorbed assholes.
Disclaimer: Airlines suck too.
Same thing. He fought them as they tried to remove him. Also, since those were law officers (not United employees) and United was following its stated policy you accept when you purchase a ticket I’m 100% certain he just garunteed that he missed his patients the next day, probably got a nice court date and won’t be able to suit United and their epic team of lawyers. SAD!
Airlines aren’t even damaged.
People get all bent out of shape but every few months it’s the latest “scandal” and tongue wagging, the airline wins the legal battle and then when all the soap box princesses go to buy their next ticket they do the same thing we all do. Log on to a travel aggregator, pick the cheapest ticket that fits their time slot and click buy. In two weeks 99% of Americans won’t even remember which airline did this. You act like airlines haven’t been destroying everyone’s luggage, dropping flights, leaving them to sweat on runways for 4 hours or having Jihadis run their planes into tall buildings for the past 30 years. Delta knows this and doesn’t care.
Besides, the guy was being a prick. He lost fair and square. They had three employees that had to go to a hub to make sure other flights weren’t canceled. Sorry, you lose, back to square 1.
well see. they should be increasing incentives until someone volunteers to leave instead of calling law enforcement
They ran into this problem years ago and in an overbook they do that, although the incentives are capped. They capped them because too many people were gaming it for huge payouts and ultimately they decided some bad customer service was worth it on the bottom line level using cost benefit analysis. Again, it’s stated policy.
But when it’s need to fly employees after an ex machina event (huge storm outage in the south east) they declare a sort of force majeur and that’s their written policy.
What gets me is you can literally google any airline name and “scandal” and you’ll get a laundry list of shocked headlines and tongue wagging over any trailing 12 month period. But ultimately it doesn’t matter, you’re just picking who will screw you if logistics go awry.
Private plane or hacksaw.
But it’s a terrible policy and the airline staff behaved horrendously. They should have paid to get those employees out on another flight and left the passengers on this flight be.
I can’t see how you can defend what happened. I get the impression if they had set the doctor on fire you’d be like, ‘well he should have checked the T&Cs before he booked! Possible immolation is a risk you take when you fly commercial.’