The flight wasn’t ‘oversold’ it was that 4 UA crew wanted to hop on to get to their next flight. It was an abuse of power by UAL.
China is a key international market for United. Apparently, there have been more than 100 million views on Weibo - basically Chinese Twitter, from what I’ve heard - of the clip of the Asian doctor being dragged from the plane.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/asia/united-passenger-dragged-off-china-reaction/
Nice guy though, I’m sure he really “had to see” his patients. Sounds like they should have beat the peice of sh*t worse:
http://www.tmz.com/2017/04/11/united-airlines-doctor-convicted-drugs-sex/
Dr. David Dao was charged in 2005 with 98 felony drug counts for illegally prescribing and trafficking painkillers. Prosecutors claimed Dao fraudulently filled prescriptions for hydocodone, Oxycontin and Percocet.
Dr. Dao was also convicted on 6 felony counts of obtaining drugs by fraud and deceit and in 2005 was given 5 years probation.
Dao was also convicted for writing prescriptions and checks to a patient in exchange for sex.
In February, 2005, Dr. Dao surrendered his license to practice medicine in Kentucky. In 2015 the medical board lifted the suspension and allowed him to practice medicine with some restrictions. Last year, the medical board imposed even more restrictions – now he can only practice internal medicine in an outpatient facility one day a week.
Interestingly, and relevant to the United incident, one doctor assessing Dao’s case said he had interpersonal problems, noting “… he would unilaterally choose to do his own thing.”
Rise the bet… I don’t know… 1,000 USD and hotel for the ppl that surrender their seats! Nobody? Ok 1,200 + hotel and a 500gr. bag of peanuts.
Sold!
No need of random picks.
200 USD is way cheaper than the 20k-30k the guy will get to shut up, if not more.
Sure, but then you gotta figure that this happened to 40,000 people last year. Its only the very rare one that you have to have a big settlement with.
^Birdman gets it.
It’s NPV analysis on a business that clears $5 in profit per passenger 2010-2014 and $15 per passenger in a good year on 143M passengers. This is a bus route not a hospitality business.
Have you included in your NPV analysis a peak loss as this one?
If 40,000 passengers got removed last year as Birmand states, 39,999 of them surrender nicely and the last 1 fights back… what would you do? Look for the 40,001 th guy and offer him those extra 200 bucks and the 500gr. bag of peanuts.
I don’t know why this is too difficult to understand.
Well if they were to offer every person the extra accommodation described in your other post, the extra cost would be (1000-200). Doing that 40,000 times would be $32m. If they had 6 huge scandals per year, and offered 6 people who fought back $5m settlements, it’d still be worth it.
That said, IDK where this 200 dollar figure is coming from. I was on an overbooked flight a few years ago and got a $500 voucher and hotel stay.
Yes and one of two things happen if you cave to people who fight. 1) it changes the behavior of the remaining 39,000 and 2) you have to be able to accurately guess who will resist (which most can’t). You’re also assuming that they knew the police were going to go full metal jacket on the guy.
It would be something if some enterprising individuals saw an opportunity here and decided to make an investment in some flights on some dweeby looking clothes and some highly trafficked flights.
I’m shocked nobody helped him fight those thug security guys, if I were there it would have been a brawl. Those douchs would have regretted it and I’d be grinning in jail with 2 black eyes
I’ve noticed that you seem like you’ve got a bit of a penchant for conflict, frankybarnes.
Or you could have volunteered your seat and let him stay.
Whoa, we got a regular Mark Wahlberg over here.
my son volunteers at wheels on wheels, how do you help others
untrue, actors pretend to be something there not
I’m a big guy, if some security tried to do that to me on a plane, by the end of it, it would look like the tazmanian devil blew through it. It wouldn’t be pretty