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[gblowfish]

Just kicked some poor guys ass for refusing to give up his seat!
You never see this on the United Airlines commercials....

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...ompting-outcry

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by mikeyis4dcats.

meanwhile, Delta significantly increased their compensation limits for VDB.

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.c...-compensation/

And people prolly thought my $6K number was nuts. Ha!

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by Dartgod

Webster's definition:

Definition of beating
1: an act of striking with repeated blows so as to injure or damage; also : the injury or damage thus inflicted

Hey, I'm not defending their actions one bit. It was despicable. What it wasn't though was a beating.

And yes, he certainly sustained a broken nose and broken teeth (per news reports). But those came from being forcibly removed from his seat. Not from a beating, or getting his ass beat, or getting the **** beat out of him. etc.

All those terms imply multiple blows being rained down on him and you know it. Hence my claim that you are being obtuse.

I still say you are making an inane distinction. It doesn't matter. So if people want to say he was beat, and I think he was, then let it go.

[Garcia Bronco]

Oh, and I don't know if it's been mentioned in the thread but the people that caused the serious injuries without beating him were not even police officers and they have been repeatedly told not to wear garb that identifies them as police.

[Frazod]

This one's pretty good.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Garcia Bronco

Oh, and I don't know if it's been mentioned in the thread but the people that caused the serious injuries without beating him were not even police officers and they have been repeatedly told not to wear garb that identifies them as police.

How do officers get discharged out of this, then?

[Just Passin' By]

United Airlines is changing a company policy and will no longer allow crew members to displace customers already onboard an airplane.


The change comes after a passenger, Dr. David Dao, was dragged from a fully-booked United Express flight in Chicago because he refused to give up his seat to make room for crew members. Cellphone video of the incident sparked widespread outrage and created a public-relations nightmare for United.

Under the change outlined in an internal April 14 email, a crew member must make must-ride bookings at least 60 minutes prior to departure. Crews could previously be booked until the time of departure.

United spokeswoman Maggie Schmerin said in an email Sunday that the change is an initial step in a review of policies and it's meant to ensure that situations like Dao's never happen again.

http://www.lex18.com/story/35161595/...cing-customers

[splatbass]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

http://www.lex18.com/story/35161595/...cing-customers

That is the way it should have been all along. They removed a passenger from his seat because crew members couldn't be bothered to get there on time, or even request the seats early.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

http://www.lex18.com/story/35161595/...cing-customers

I love how people have to be forced into common sense.

[BucEyedPea]

The market working

Delta OKs $10,000 Payments To Passengers On Overbooked Flights

http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/delta-overbooked/

In the wake of United Airlines’ disastrous, forced “re-accommodation” of Kentucky doctor David Dao, Delta has authorized payments of up to almost $10,000 per overbooked passenger, the Associated Press reported.

An internal company memo obtained by the AP says gate agents can offer up to $2,000 in compensation and ground supervisors can offer up to $9,950. The previous maximums were $800 and $1,350, respectively.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by Just Passin' By

http://www.lex18.com/story/35161595/...cing-customers

The market responding to the benefit of consumers.

[gblowfish]

If you think United has learned any lessons from their PR Nightmare.... "Here, hold my beer...."

It’s been a bad week for United Airlines. After a video of a passenger being violently removed from a plane by police went viral, you’d think the airline would be trying to stay out of the headlines.

In the latest passenger-PR nightmare, a couple flying United to their destination wedding in Costa Rica were booted from their plane on Saturday. Michael Hohl and Amber Maxwell were traveling with family and friends when confusion over seating landed them back in the terminal.

The wedding, planned for Thursday, will still happen but the couple are — quite understandably — not happy with how United handled the situation. “We thought not a big deal, it’s not like we are trying to jump up into a first-class seat,” Hohl told News13, an ABC affiliate.“We were simply in an economy row a few rows above our economy seat.”

The couple had flown into Houston, Tex., from Salt Lake City, Utah. After a layover at George Bush Intercontinental airport they boarded United flight 1737 bound for Liberia, Costa Rica. When they went to sit down they found a man stretched out and sleeping in their row.

According to the couple they jumped up a few rows on the mostly empty plane and didn’t think much of it. When a flight attendant asked them why they weren’t in their assigned seats the trouble started.

The airline and the couple have two different versions of events. According to the couple they tried to explain there was someone sleeping in their assigned seats. Even after they complied with the flight crew and woke the sleeping man an air marshal approached them and told them they had to get off the plane.

United Airlines in a statement said: “We’re disappointed anytime a customer has an experience that doesn’t measure up to their expectations. These passengers repeatedly attempted to sit in upgraded seating which they did not purchase and they would not follow crew instructions to return to their assigned seats. We’ve been in touch with them and have re-booked them on flights tomorrow.”

Hohl and Maxwell deny they were being disorderly. “I think customer service and the airlines has gone real downhill,” said Hohl. “The way United Airlines handled this was really absurd.”

The stepfather of the bride to be, Michael Gallagher, told KUTV 2News Utah in an interview: “Truthfully we all worried that maybe something would happen in Costa Rica and we were willing to deal with that, never in our wildest dreams did we think United was going to screw it up in Houston, Texas.”

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/style/united-a...181721817.html

[Donger]

These passengers repeatedly attempted to sit in upgraded seating which they did not purchase and they would not follow crew instructions to return to their assigned seats

Not remotely comparable, and **** them both for trying to sit in EP.

[Rasputin]

[GloryDayz]

We can only hope that all this blowup with United (a pretty terrible Airline IMO) has the positive side effect of having all the airline's shitty ways exposed and questioned. I'm not calling for them to go back to the 50s, 60s, and perhaps the 70s where air travel was seemingly reserved for the ascot-wearing elite, but what they're doing today is complete bullshit. If ever there was a case for an "Undercover Boss" episode this would be it. Too bad they'd probably just get mad at the people being too nice, and I'm sure TSA wouldn't allow it.

[alpha_omega]

Something isn't right with that story.....they couldn't sit in their seats because there was someone sleeping there? Why were THEY asked to wake the sleeping guy and not the attendant?

Something sounds wrong here (or i am just missing it).