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Get off our plane! Now!

Boris said:
Yes you said "pocket the $1600". Not my fault you can not explain yourself. Also it was 4 total, read the "FINE PRINT" asterisks I am assuming we're ********.
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English, Boris, is quite clearly not your first language.
 
Boris said:
Yes you said "pocket the $1600". Not my fault you can not explain yourself. Also it was 4 total, read the "FINE PRINT" asterisks I am assuming we're *******.

[MENTION=84]moevillini[/MENTION] an [MENTION=499]LogGrad98[/MENTION] this practice, while legal, should be outlawed. You ain't talkin rain checks on a mattress or sofa sale when your entire trip is dependent on that flight. You miss your cruise cause United has cops drag you off the plane oh well. That really what you want to stance?

Solution is easy to moevellini get rid of early cancellation. Plan your trip an pay for it stead of being a spoilt brat an demanding refunds. Trump will fix this.
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Agreed with everything until I read "Trump will fix this". LOL .. I'm not so sure.
 
moevillini said:
first of all, companies often sell more of a product than they have available

haven't you ever gotten an "currently out of stock" notice on something you've ordered?

Secondly, people DO pay for refundable tickets and then don't show up - - somewhat common in business class actually. Why should that seat go empty if there's somebody who really wants to get to that destination?

That said, the plane probably should NOT have boarded until the situation was straightened out. But again, there really is not an easy answer. If planes have to fly with empty seats because of no-shows, we'll all pay the price - especially those who purchase at the lowest price point.

Anyhow, an update to this specific situation - apparently it was not a United flight per sé, but a partner airline that provides service to Louisville, and it was a smallish "communter" plane. And the employees who needed the seats were crew members who were scheduled to fly an outbound flight out of Louisville.
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I think what they should have done is :


1. Not boarded the plane until they have the right number of people


2. Do a reverse 'auction' off the seats. So you start at $800, if there are no takers then go up to $900, and so on and so forth, until you have all 4 available seats.
 
Duck Rodgers said:
Chinese always side with Chinese. If this happened in China and you were not Chinese .......a bunch of Chinese people would've kicked you in the head as you were being dragged out. You don't get to mess with Chinese people if you're not Chinese. Not Authority figures, not common folk. You can't even go after wallet thieves in China because they'll just scream that a foreigner is attacking them and then 20 random Chinese males that don't even know the guy will have you surrounded in no time.
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I thought the man was Japanese?


Funny how this incident unintentionally reunited the Chinese and the Japanese... LOL..
 
♪alt13 said:
I think airlines have to not only give you a refund but they also have to give you a dollar amount above that by law.
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Yeah, a lot of people who travel a ton who make a decent amount of $$$ on vouchers doing this. A lot of times they will ask for volunteers and there will be another available plane a few hours from then.
 
How can you use force to get somebody to voluntarily leave the plane? Something here does not make sense, either the man doesn't want to get off the plane and they can find somebody else who does without the use of force or it was not a voluntary removal at all. Either way it seems the Airline has screwed the pooch.

I'm all for using force on the general public, most of them are ignorant and dangerous, left to their own devices they probably would have burnt the aircraft to the ground and rolled around in the left over jet fuel. However if you are gong to beat the public, (and you should try it, its a lot of fun.) at least have some defensible reason for it. For starters, applying reason to the situation normally gives you an advantage on them and helps to keep you out of prison.
 
People are starting to cut up their United/Chase credit cards..


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The guys wife got off the plane.
What was he going to do?
Leave her behind?
This seems odd.
 
This is dumb. Maybe airport security crossed the line and was too aggressive(honestly it doesn't seem like it)but they are not United Employees.

If I call the police to remove you from my house and they beat you up you should take that up with the police chief.
 
The guy agreed to get off the plane for the voucher, hotel and so forth. He then left the plane on his own. When he found out that the next flight was tomorrow and not in a couple hours he ran past security without a ticket or permission and boarded the plane and refused to leave after they asked him to multiple times.

Had he not left the first time they would not have handled it like this. They would have continued to up the offer to get people off the plane. Or they would have started pulling people to the side and offering them. The force might have been excessive but what should they have done in this case? He should not have ran past security and re-boarded the plane. This one is on the passenger but the airline will pay the price for this one even though they really did nothing wrong. They rightfully called the police and the actions of the police are outside of their control.
 
dalamon said:
insolent little child? Dude is a doctor at a hospital and has patients to check on the next morning.

Don't stand up for these moron airliners who participate in the ridiculous practice of overbooking tickets.
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A doctor who lost his license for 10 years for swapping pills for sex...and current fly works one day a week. He ain't no saint.

The airline had every legal right to take his seat. Obviously would have been much smarter to do it before they boarded. But hell, when security has to come up and get you, and you know you're legally in the wrong, just get off the damn flight.
 
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