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Get off our plane! Now!

Wes Mantooth said:
Holy hell in a handbag. Give me a ****ing break. Not to sound like Hack here, but liberals have crossed the line of becoming annoying as ****.

This is very simple. When you buy an airline ticket, there is unfortunately fine print and within that fine print it states that the airline has the right to remove you if overbooked. That's what happened here. The airline needed four volunteers to get off. Three volunteers stepped forward like adults, receiving $800 for doing so too I might add. This guy decided like an insolent little child to remain in his seat. Authorities had to be called in. He wouldn't listen. The cops had to remove him. Cry me a ****ing river.
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still no reason to initiate FORCE! the good ole days the asian man should have pulled a gun and killed the officers!
 
moevillini said:
United needed the four seats for employees who wanted/needed to get to Louisville.

Definitely a situation that was handled VERY badly.

Not sure what the answer is other than to keep upping the ante to passengers to give up their seats - but if people keep refusing, the airline's hands seem tied.

I suppose there aren't a lot of other options to get from Chicago to Louisville if these were employees who were to be part of a crew for a flight departing Louisville. If the crew isn't there, that sets off a whole chain of delays and other consequences. Though if they were just employees traveling on a comp pass, then tough luck to them.

I'll be curious to learn more about the situation.

Overbooking flights is standard - it may not seem right, but then again the airlines often have ticketed passengers who don't show up for flights, particularly among Business class passengers who have refundable tickets that they aren't personally paying for anyhow.
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4 HOUR DRIVE! ghet a driver and a nice comfy buss!
 
♪alt13 said:
The airlines should sell overbook protection up to a certain percentage of the seats. It seems like a fair way to do it. Then you are selecting from a group that paid less for the same seat. That person has also self screened themself. If it was crazy important for them to make it to their destination on time then they would have bought the protection.
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Funny thing is they actually do. This situation is bizarre and far from the norm. United screwed up, plain and simple. They should not have tried to force anyone off the plane. That said, emergencies happen and often passengers cannot know what is prompting a change like this, and they need to understand that airlines use set criteria to select who to approach when the situation warrants it. It isn't a random thing, they have a list of passengers for just such a purpose. I have seen the lists before (with American and Delta, not with United).

I was on one such list and they called us to the gate, told us the flight would likely be over-booked, and told us that they could give us vouchers or we could wait and take our chances, that if we took the vouchers we got something for it, and if we got bumped all we would get was a guaranteed seat on the next flight. We took the vouchers as we were flying for business and an extra night in the hotel was not the end of the world.

The other time I volunteered because I again had an extra day in the deal. They pulled out a paper list with all passengers, found my name and said "you are an elite level frequent flyer, your seat is guaranteed". I asked if that meant I couldn't volunteer and she said no, of course I could volunteer. So I did, called corp travel, booked a room next to the airport for the night and left the next day.

It is not an uncommon occurrence, but this was botched by both the gate personnel and the douche who wouldn't give up his seat.
 
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..
 
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