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What a bizarre situation lol. Is that passenger a doctor?
lol, Bill was laughing. I'm not sure at who though.
What a bizarre situation lol. Is that passenger a doctor?
Dude is gonna get a few hundred grand for this
USA police state and war mongering destroying America's brand across the planet
United CEO Blames ‘Belligerent’ Customer For Overbooked Flight Melee
CEO Oscar Munoz says airline agents were “left with no choice” but to call security.
Munoz acknowledged “there are lessons we can learn from this experience,” and admonishes employees to treat customers “with respect and dignity.”
But he gives no hint that the airline did anything wrong.
“While I deeply regret this situation arose, I also emphatically stand behind all of you, and I want to commend you for continuing to go above and beyond to ensure we fly safe.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/united-airines-ceo-email-employees-us_us_58ec20e0e4b0c89f9120c8be?&utm_medium=email&u tm_campaign=The%20Morning%20Email%20041117&utm_con tent=The%20Morning%20Email%20041117+CID_e5e3219067 36f7cef781d3b0217bcb0b&utm_source=Email%20marketin g%20software&utm_term=According%20to%20the%20Unite d%20CEO&%20Morning%20Email%20041117
"left no choice", as if the Corporate-American "person" FORCED the goons to go SS on the doctor, so WITH NO FREE WILL, nobody, except the BLAMED victim, is responsible.
Corporate America the Beautiful. America is ing corporatocracy fascist police state.
As Godwin knows well, Ms of Americans, ordered by their Corporate-American employer, would round up Americans and turn on nozzles for Zyklon B.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 04-11-2017 at 08:49 AM.
Well they cant drag white americans out of a plane. They would need heavy equipment for that
United should have offered more - even $2k x 4 would be peanuts compared to what this PR nightmare will cost (especially after the leggings incident).Dude is gonna get a few hundred grand for this
That dude is a little .
There was a time when we treated middle age women with respect in this country. To hear that women scream as she is being brutally dragged down the aisle is disgusting!
"I am being forceably removed from this plane for no other reason than it is overbooked."
*scream translation*
1- Why are airlines allowed to overbook?
2- News reports that the flight was not actually overbooked but that United wanted to make room for 4 United employees who wanted to hitch a ride.
3- United employees are saying that the stewardess was authorized to double the offer to 1600.00 to entice customers to give up their seat. The stewardess decided on her own to hold the bidding to $800.00
4- Why pick on a middle age Asian women. What happened to Men protecting women? A woman was much safer on the streets of Dodge City than an airplane seat on United Airlines. Disgusting!
Lol why is this called overbooked
Overbooked IMO is when there are too many passengers and they are able to fix this issue at the gate
What they really had is employees who wanted to be on the flight and they had to kick out some passenger for them thats not overbooked
The asian victim will get at least a couple millions off this.
Penny wise and pound foolish - United Airline stock down 4% today.
Dr. Dao was no angel
Dao's past doesn not justify being brutalized by United Airlines goons.
Same racist rightwingnutjob logic that says Freddy Grey deserved to have cops break his back and execute him because he had a record
or justifiably stand by while strangled Eric Garner gurgled to death because he was selling onesies.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 04-11-2017 at 12:08 PM.
Lol why is this called overbooked
Overbooked IMO is when there are too many passengers and they are able to fix this issue at the gate
What they really had is employees who wanted to be on the flight and they had to kick out some passenger for them thats not overbooked
The asian victim will get at least a couple millions off this.
The Passenger Dragged Off a United Plane Is a Symptom of Airlines’ Ridiculous, Outdated Overbooking System
For an airline, every empty seat on a flight is an economic tragedy—an airline seat is a perishable item that can be sold only once. So over the years air carriers have become ruthless about increasing their load factor: switching to smaller planes, cutting capacity, and of course, routinely and strategically overbooking. Everybody knows that a certain percentage of people who make reservations—at hotels, restaurants, cruises, and flights—don’t show up for one reason or another. But they can still be monetized.
These efforts have worked. The load factor, which was at 79 percent in 2006, has hovered at around 83 percent for the past several years.
The airlines want to optimize to the point that, whenever possible, 100 percent of every flight is full. And if that means building overbooking into the system, and having to compensate or induce people to get bumped to later flights, so be it. It’s worth the cost.
And as they deploy software and algorithms, airlines have improved their management of overbooking.
In 2000, the data shows, 1.12 million people (or .2 percent of all travelers) were denied boarding, almost all of them voluntarily.
By 2010, the figure had dropped to about 746,000.
However, in 2015, after having fallen for four straight years, the number of bumps rose 15 percent to 552,000, of which 46,000 were involuntary.
We don’t have the numbers for 2016 and early 2017, but my guess would be that the incidence of bumping has risen—and that it is becoming harder and harder for airlines to convince people to get bumped.
So for lots of people sitting on planes today, there is simply no price at which it would make sense to get bumped, especially on sparsely traveled routes.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/...ng_system.html
Clickbait character assassination on a guy that didn't ask to be national news. Classy.
Royal Jordanian Airlines is brilliantly trolling United over the passenger dragging scandal
https://twitter.com/RoyalJordanian/s...candal-twitter
http://www.vox.com/world/2017/4/11/1...candal-twitter
He knew what he was doing. He could have acted like an adult but chose to be dragged out kicking and screeching like a banshee. Like i said, what a ing pussy.
Yup. Straight out of the trayvon Martin playbook.
We can agree his reaction was over the top but not sure the punishment should be national shaming. Ultimately United is still in the wrong here, and his past isn't relevant to the incident.
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