United Airlines violently drag passenger off overbooked flight

[Teaboy]

I'm genuinely surprised that no one wanted the 800 bucks. Thats just free money.

When I was younger I deliberately traveled scruffily. About three times I was put on the standby list and just as I was dreaming of the money and a nice hotel for the night I was told seats were available.

I once won £200 on a gambler in a pub and that was the best day of my life. $800? I'd have bitten their hands off.

 

[weltweit]

I'm genuinely surprised that no one wanted the 800 bucks. Thats just free money.
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I bet it would have been a voucher though!

 

[Teaboy]

I bet it would have been a voucher though!

I don't care. You can get an international flight for that. Holiday for the year sorted and face intact.

 

[LDC]

I don't care. You can get an international flight for that. Holiday for the year sorted and face intact.

No, I've had a few vouchers for air travel over the years and they've been without exception totally shit due to the terms and conditions, and never used one of them as it's always been cheaper to find alternative flights.

 

[Teaboy]

No, I've had a few vouchers for air travel over the years and they've been without exception totally shit due to the terms and conditions, and never used one of them as it's always been cheaper to find alternative flights.

Ask for it it cash then, do a deal - they were clearly desperate. Mind, I'm pretty sure I could find a way to spend $800 worth of vouchers.

 

[Dr. Furface]

I'm genuinely surprised that no one wanted the 800 bucks. Thats just free money.

When I was younger I deliberately traveled scruffily. About three times I was put on the standby list and just as I was dreaming of the money and a nice hotel for the night I was told seats were available.

I once won £200 on a gambler in a pub and that was the best day of my life. $800? I'd have bitten their hands off.

I would have too if I'd been able to be flexible and they were offering hotel and flight next day all in - no brainer. When I first read the story I was surprised that there were no takers when they upped their offer to $800 - surely not everyone on board just HAD to be on that flight? Maybe none of them trusted United to actually pay them?!

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Ask for it it cash then, do a deal - they were clearly desperate. Mind, I'm pretty sure I could find a way to spend $800 worth of vouchers.

Judging by what they did to that one passenger, I'm thinking they weren't really open to negotiation.

 

[Teaboy]

Judging by what they did to that one passenger, I'm thinking they weren't really open to negotiation.

Well, you don't have to be The Donald to realise that the time to cut a deal has passed when you're being punched in the face.

 

[skyscraper101]

Does anyone else smell a smear campaign?

All these articles have appeared in the last hour.

United passenger traded drugs for gay sex with patient | Daily Mail Online

http://nypost.com/2017/04/11/doctor-dragged-off-flight-convicted-of-trading-drugs-for-sex/

Reports: Doc taken off United jet has troubled past, poker skills

Doc pulled from United flight previously convicted of drug crimes

What?! That Beaten United Airlines Passenger Was Previously Convicted For Illegally Writing Prescriptions In Exchange For Sex!

Coincidentally the Mail article is by a Louiseville based hack.

 

[Teaboy]

Also, whilst I have no way for knowing for sure how I would react if I was kicked off a plane I wouldn't be feeling entirely comfortable now if the guy was my doctor.

 

[editor]

Also, whilst I have no way for knowing for sure how I would react if I was kicked off a plane I wouldn't be feeling entirely comfortable now if the guy was my doctor.

Ah I see you're keen to join in with the smearing.

 

[dessiato]

If he was belligerent and disruptive, under the maritime rules for dealing with this type of person he was always going to get a slap, if not a bucket of iced water over his head. Under the same rules when he tried to re-board the plane he should have been shot, to encourage the other passengers. He was clearly plane happy and brought it on himself.




OK?

 

[Gromit]

Also, whilst I have no way for knowing for sure how I would react if I was kicked off a plane I wouldn't be feeling entirely comfortable now if the guy was my doctor.

Like you've never traded drugs for sexual favours? Everyone does it.

 

[editor]

I'm genuinely surprised that no one wanted the 800 bucks. Thats just free money.

When I was younger I deliberately traveled scruffily. About three times I was put on the standby list and just as I was dreaming of the money and a nice hotel for the night I was told seats were available.

I once won £200 on a gambler in a pub and that was the best day of my life. $800? I'd have bitten their hands off.

It's usually a voucher actually, loaded with limitations and caveats. And people use a book a flight at a particular time because they have to be somewhere at a particular time and $800 won't change that.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I wonder: if the airline offers $800 and there's no takers, and the airline goes to the 'random draw' option to pick ejectees: do the people dragged off the plane get the $800? Or is that off the table?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Ask for it it cash then, do a deal - they were clearly desperate. Mind, I'm pretty sure I could find a way to spend $800 worth of vouchers.

In the US, people have so little vacation time that $800 isn't enough to make people give one up.

 

[Teaboy]

Ah I see you're keen to join in with the smearing.

That's not a smear that's a personal observation.

ETA: I was talking about the video footage not the smear stuff which was posted at the same time.

 

[Teaboy]

In the US, people have so little vacation time that $800 isn't enough to make people give one up.

Thats pretty sad. $800 worth of flight vouchers but no time to actually use them.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The Chinese connection:

Wang Guanxiong, 40, an angel investor in the technology industry in Beijing who travels frequently to Silicon Valley, said he would never fly on United again.

“Why did they choose an Asian out of so many passengers?” he said in a telephone interview. “Obviously Asians are the minorities.”

People’s Daily said it was “gravely disappointing” that the airline had “mentioned nothing of the violence against the Asian passenger.”

The Chinese news media often highlights episodes of violence and racism directed at people of Chinese descent overseas as evidence of what it considers the hypocrisy of Western democracies on human rights issues.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/world/asia/united-airlines-passenger-dragged-china.html

 

[Teaboy]

I wonder: if the airline offers $800 and there's no takers, and the airline goes to the 'random draw' option to pick ejectees: do the people dragged off the plane get the $800? Or is that off the table?

I think at least one of the 4 is going to be getting slightly more than $800.

 

[editor]

That's not a smear that's a personal observation.

You haven't observed anything - you've just soaked up some of the smears that are currently being pumped out online.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I think at least one of the 4 is going to be getting slightly more than $800.

If I were that passenger, I'd be calling Gerry Spence.

 

[Teaboy]

You haven't observed anything - you've just soaked up some of the smears that are currently being pumped out online.

See my edit. I was talking about the video.

God knows what was going on in his life or what was going through his mind, but I would hope that my doctor would remain a little calm under pressure. I hope he's not a surgeon.

 

[weltweit]

I don't get this overbooking issue.

If the plane has lets say 200 seats, and they sell 200 tickets for those seats, if only 170 people turn up leaving 30 empty seats they are not losing anything because the customers who didn't turn up still pay.

Am I missing something?

 

[Stanley Edwards]

See my edit. I was talking about the video.

God knows what was going on in his life or what was going through his mind, but I would hope that my doctor would remain a little calm under pressure. I hope he's not a surgeon.

What does your personal opinion about a guy you have never met have to do with anything here?
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I see United are firmly trying to pass the buck to the airport authority police. That stinks of desperation. They're sunk.

 

[Teaboy]

I don't get this overbooking issue.

If the plane has lets say 200 seats, and they sell 200 tickets for those seats, if only 170 people turn up leaving 30 empty seats they are not losing anything because the customers who didn't turn up still pay.

Am I missing something?

In the US internal flight tickets are often fully flexible. So if you turn up at the airport early you can get an earlier flight or change to a later one if necessary. Cheap fully flexible fares have to be paid for some way and to keep the planes running full they overbook.

We have less of that in Europe but we don't have the flexible fares either (unless you pay through the nose).

 

[Lord Camomile]

I don't get this overbooking issue.

If the plane has lets say 200 seats, and they sell 200 tickets for those seats, if only 170 people turn up leaving 30 empty seats they are not losing anything because the customers who didn't turn up still pay.

The cost of flying a plane, I think. Depending on the airline and ticket prices, I think some of them have to oversell just to break even

 

[Teaboy]

What does your personal opinion about a guy you have never met have to do with anything here?
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Nothing you stupid twat. Just like your opinion here means nothing but here you are.

 

[weltweit]

In the US internal flight tickets are often fully flexible. So if you turn up at the airport early you can get an earlier flight or change to a later one if necessary. Cheap fully flexible fares have to be paid for some way and to keep the planes running full they overbook.

We have less of that in Europe but we don't have the flexible fares either (unless you pay through the nose).

Oh I forgot about flexible tickets, so if they sold 200 and only 170 turned up the revenue on that flight would be down .....

 

[Magnus McGinty]

So not only did he get his face smashed in by a company he was the customer of, they're now wanting to destroy his life through the media.
Keep it classy, corporate America.