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04-11-2017, 06:18 AM
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why couldnt they have ask/pick someone else?
Nowadays, everything is about image for big companies...
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04-11-2017, 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Timpo  Was that $800 cash or credit towards future flight?
Also if $800 cash didn't work, they should've raised it to $1,000 or even $2,000 or $3,000.
I know airlines work on small profit margins, but that's none of customers' business.
Now they are probably facing 7 digit lawsuit + lost potential income due to media exposure & ruined reputation, which could cause possible 8 or 9 digit total loss. | Sorry as some people mention is not $800 cash but $800 credit for in flight service. And those some popular in flight service are not include and you can only use the credit on certain route (IE non popular ones.). With such a shitty compensation of course no one wants to give up their seats.
Heck even if the $800 credit can go towards any plane ticket I wouldn't want to ride with airline again so offering any credit is useless.
If United offer cash instead of credit I bet a lot more people are willing to give up their seats.
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04-11-2017, 06:46 AM
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They identified the passenger. Sorry for the shitty sauce. Dr dragged from United Airlines flight named as David Dao | Daily Mail Online Quote:
The passenger who was dragged from an United Airlines flight is 69-year-old grandfather Dr David Dao. Footage of the Vietnamese-American being hauled off the overbooked flight at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Sunday caused outrage on Monday.
Dr Dao was heard in videos captured of his shocking eviction saying he needed to get home to Louisville so he could see patients.
DailyMail.com can reveal Dr Dao is a father of five and a grandfather, who specializes in internal medicine.
Four of his five children are doctors. His wife Teresa, 69, is a pediatrican who trained at Ho Chi Minh University in Saigon and also practices in Elizabethtown, Kentucky - about 40 miles south of Louisville.
Their eldest son Tim, 34, practices medicine in Texas; their second son Ben, 31, is a medical graduate; their daughter Christine, 33, is a doctor in Durham, NC; and their youngster daughter Angela, 27, is a medical graduate of the University of Kentucky.
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04-11-2017, 07:05 AM
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#79 | | I don't like cheese but I love milk!
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I actually have no problem with airline overbooking...it is business and statistic ...otherwise they'd be wasting tons of empty seats on every flights.
The shitty part is how they handled the situation when problem arises like this one.
Also just checked...Chicago to Lousville is a 4.5 hours drive...
If someone rented a car and drove there they would've arrived before the flight even gets there after 2.5hrs of delays and 1.5hrs flight + all the boarding/unboarding time.
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04-11-2017, 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Marshall Placid The passenger thought that by screaming and kicking, he could stay on the flight.
End result: nobody won. | The passenger didn't win the battle, but he may yet win the war. His actions brought this whole practice of overbooking and policies around it to discussion and I bet some policies are going to change.
UA's latest unapologetic statements seem to be digging their hole even deeper, now their stock is down 4% today.
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04-11-2017, 07:35 AM
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The chance for United to prevent this passenger from flying was to do it at the boarding gate. They already let him board, and their Contract of Carriage (ToS) doesn't give them any right to do what they did in this situation.
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04-11-2017, 07:54 AM
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04-11-2017, 07:57 AM
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04-11-2017, 08:00 AM
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the police charged him for battering
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04-11-2017, 08:17 AM
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So if an Airline is knowingly going to sell overbooked tickets, why don't they state them as overbooked tickets? This allows again for those who have purchased tickets late to be denied a seat, which then I would have no problem. But if you're going to assign a seat and then try to pull back.. That just wont fly with the public and there will be issues.
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04-11-2017, 08:24 AM
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A big fuck you to the United CEO.
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04-11-2017, 08:29 AM
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#87 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Originally Posted by Dragon-88 So if an Airline is knowingly going to sell overbooked tickets, why don't they state them as overbooked tickets? This allows again for those who have purchased tickets late to be denied a seat, which then I would have no problem. But if you're going to assign a seat and then try to pull back.. That just wont fly with the public and there will be issues. | They have this, called "Standby tickets".
Except the airlines found it was more profitable to just oversell at full ticket price and bump people at "random".
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04-11-2017, 08:56 AM
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04-11-2017, 09:00 AM
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i think the aviation security took his 'kill me i just wanna go home' statement too literally
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04-11-2017, 09:14 AM
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04-11-2017, 09:19 AM
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04-11-2017, 09:19 AM
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04-11-2017, 09:37 AM
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#94 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by Great68 The passenger didn't win the battle, but he may yet win the war. His actions brought this whole practice of overbooking and policies around it to discussion and I bet some policies are going to change.
UA's latest unapologetic statements seem to be digging their hole even deeper, now their stock is down 4% today. | looking at pre market prices is like counting chicken before it hatches. Volume is so low literally means nothing. Look not even the end of the trading day and it already made back alot of its loses.
unfortunately in the grand scheme of things scandal like this will blow over in no time. UAL has ALWAYS had bad press left and right.
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04-11-2017, 10:21 AM
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This flight wasn't even overbooked. They simply decided at the last minute to kick off paying passengers in order to fly 4 employees. Just terrible. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ent/100317166/ | |
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04-11-2017, 10:55 AM
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04-11-2017, 11:07 AM
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04-11-2017, 11:12 AM
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Personally I would have just gotten up and off. I've seen enough videos illustrating the fact cops will kick the shit out of you.
Save yourself the beating and just get off the plane.
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04-11-2017, 11:22 AM
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04-11-2017, 11:33 AM
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Idiot.
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