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Nah Southwest is the worse. That's why it has that moniker Southworse airlines.
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Nah Southwest is the worse. That's why it has that moniker Southworse airlines.
Now who says United don't give a fwack
Mine was a rather unusual flight from Tehran to London in that the 747 had a 5th engine on the left wing and there weren't many passengers as they had left on a another flight.I was the only one sitting in the rear section by the window and shortly after the stewardess lay down in the middle seats next to me despite moving around a lot of tossing and turning, might have gone to sleep.I spent a fair portion of the flight debating to myself on whether I should ask her if she wanted her buttons pushed but was to scared to....sigh.
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Equation
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Either way, the lawyers are licking their chops right now.
That kind of rule is BS. Regardless passengers showing up or not, their money are already in the pocket of the airlines, what are they complaining about?
I remember some time between 1995 and 1998 there was an incident on board one of the big US airlines except United. The incident was about discrimination of a Chinese or Chinese American passenger. (I only remember the ethnicity of the passenger). The incident was pretty big news back then in China.
I had a business trip to Dallas right after that incident, I told the cooperate travel agency to avoid that airline regardless the price. Many of my colleagues did the same. A year later I made a private trip to SF, I avoided that airline and did not bother to check their price, I took United instead.
Now, it seems that I will give up United as well. As I don't remember which other airline (Northwest or AA) was my first boycott, I am left to fly only with European airlines.
I had a business trip to Dallas right after that incident, I told the cooperate travel agency to avoid that airline regardless the price. Many of my colleagues did the same. A year later I made a private trip to SF, I avoided that airline and did not bother to check their price, I took United instead.
Now, it seems that I will give up United as well. As I don't remember which other airline (Northwest or AA) was my first boycott, I am left to fly only with European airlines.
manqiangrexue
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Oh my god, this is so beautiful. Apparently, UA thought it was dealing with just a PR nightmare but was protected legally by a loophole that says it may remove passengers on overbooked flights. That loophole is called "Rule 25: Contract of carriage." Unfortunately for them, they forgot to give this guy a copy, meaning now what they did was actually illegal and basically assault. Not only that, they didn't actually have any procedures established with how to forcibly deplane someone who already boarded an overbooked flight. So now they got some 'splaining to do in front of a judge and I sincerely hope that UA goes bankrupt for this and Oscar Munoz loses all his assets and property.
broadsword
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It was reported the flight was not even overbooked.
AssassinsMace
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Here's a nice informed version of what happened on the airplane by passengers on board.
When the United attendant went around "randomly" choosing people to kick-off, two other passengers were approached first to which they refused and then the attendant moved-on to the Dao to which when he refused, they called for the police and...
Normally when you have a so-called hostile passenger, everyone on the plane hates him or her. In this case all the anger is towards the airline. So it contradicts the United Airlines version that Dao was hostile after being treated politely by United personnel.
Was United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz today quick to directly apologize to Dao after blaming him before because of the firestorm on the internet in China calling for a boycott? United Airlines has 20% of the routes to China from the US, largest of the US carriers. Also United is privileged with having routes to 2nd tier Chinese cities.
When the United attendant went around "randomly" choosing people to kick-off, two other passengers were approached first to which they refused and then the attendant moved-on to the Dao to which when he refused, they called for the police and...
Normally when you have a so-called hostile passenger, everyone on the plane hates him or her. In this case all the anger is towards the airline. So it contradicts the United Airlines version that Dao was hostile after being treated politely by United personnel.
Was United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz today quick to directly apologize to Dao after blaming him before because of the firestorm on the internet in China calling for a boycott? United Airlines has 20% of the routes to China from the US, largest of the US carriers. Also United is privileged with having routes to 2nd tier Chinese cities.
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