These senators are hilarious.
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I am deeply worried of China's future, actually the future of mankind (for other fuckups in other countries)
plawolf
Lieutenant General
Shocking and disgusting.
There is a separate video of the doctor with blood running down half his face and in a clearly traumatised state.
This will soon make global headlines. If United thought the blowback from their leggings incident was bad, this will, rightly, show them how much worse it can get.
Standard procedure is to offer inducements and keep improving on them until enough people come forwards and everyone's happy.
This is wrong and incomprehensible in every way possible. What are the police even doing being involved in this at all? They are not the goon squad of the airline corporations!
There is absolutely no reason, never mind an excuse, for doing something like this to a paying customer. And United's CEO's pure BS comment made it worse by trying to spin the situation. That will probably cost him his job if Unite knows what's good for it. For him to stay on will leave people in no doubt that United doesn't even understand what it did wrong.
I saw that video, that was pure BS even many of the passengers in that flight disagrees and can't believe it.
It should have been last on, first off. In this case date and time logging should have made it easy enough as to who bought the last tickets and they should have been the first to be asked after the lack of volunteers.
broadsword
Brigadier
If it was me who was randomly selected by the computer, I would take the compensation and disembark. But neither am I a doctor who has to attend to an errand.
The compensation is generally worthless because most of time they only give you coupons. A friend of mine got bumped off an United flight and he got eight single-use 50 dollar coupons with only 6 month valid period. He can only use them one at the time and they can't be redeemed on flights to popular destinations. In short avoid United.
AssassinsMace
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The guy closest to the incident who took one of the videos posted on the internet was on CNN. He said when the United attendant first asked for volunteers to leave the flight, this doctor and his wife were about to volunteer until they heard the next available flight was the next day, Monday, in the afternoon. So the randomness of the computer draw wasn't so random after all.
PiSigma
"the engineer"
I avoid any and all US based airlines, they are probably the worst airline companies in North america, Asia or Europe. I truly feel sorry for Americans flying domestic, no good options. At least for international, they can fly with other airlines.
I also avoid US airports for connection like the plague, mostly because they are always late and crowded.
Singapore, KL, and vancouver are all really good. Heathrow is hit and miss. Most Europe continental ones are okay. Chinese ones are also brutal bad. Japanese ones are pretty good as well.
I also avoid US airports for connection like the plague, mostly because they are always late and crowded.
Singapore, KL, and vancouver are all really good. Heathrow is hit and miss. Most Europe continental ones are okay. Chinese ones are also brutal bad. Japanese ones are pretty good as well.
Blackstone
Brigadier
It looks as if United Airlines handled things poorly, but Federal law requires passengers to obey crew instructions, so while United should have been more flexible, especially considering the man was traveling with his wife for medically-related reasons, the doctor in question also should have obeyed Federal law on crew instructions.
SteelBird
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CNN and other news state that in the contract airlines have right to remove passengers if it is overbooked. This means you buy a ticket but you might not be able to fly with it and the reason is sometime passengers who have bought tickets but don't show up and airlines don't want to fly with empty seats. I just wonder how laws could allow such rules!
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