United Airlines New Seating Chart

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give_him 6 said:
I feel that airlines need to be reigned in a bit with how they treat passengers. I am not typically a confrontational person (especially on a flight), but I have had two near "confrontations" with flight attendants recently and their "superior" attitudes. On a flight into Knoxville this week, the grumpy old lady flight attendant threatened to throw my bag off the plane to make room for someone's guitar. I wish I would have started filming that. Another flight last month, I was asked by flight attendants to move seats 3 times with no explanation.
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On a US Airways flight from Charlotte to Las Vegas last May, a flight attendant asked me to move from my exit row aisle seat (which I had specifically requested and purchased over a month in advance) to a middle seat two rows behind me just so a married couple could sit next to each other. All I said was, "No thanks! I'm comfortable." She looked at me like I had stolen something and said, "Do I need to call security?" I moved... but damn that left a bad taste in my mouth. You have no rights aboard a plane. It's like being in jail.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
On a US Airways flight from Charlotte to Las Vegas last May, a flight attendant asked me to move from my exit row aisle seat (which I had specifically requested and purchased over a month in advance) to a middle seat two rows behind me just so a married couple could sit next to each other. All I said was, "No thanks! I'm comfortable." She looked at me like I had stolen something and said, "Do I need to call security?" I moved... but damn that left a bad taste in my mouth. You have no rights aboard a plane. It's like being in jail.
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Wow, that's ridiculous. I think if I had been on the United flight I would have been tempted to step in once they grabbed that guy and knocked him out. I might have wound up in jail, but it's past time that people quit standing around. I know if I had been in his situation I would want someone to stand up for me.
 
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LEAKED United Airlines training video:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvPugcb7QGE[/youtube]
 
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Lulz at the Chicago PD statement. Said dude busted his face when he fell into an armrest. Of course the 2-3 officers yanking him towards said armrest were not a part of that.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
The reports I have read state that $800 was the final offer for a credit to any passenger willing to give up their seat. What a bunch of tight asses! I can't believe United wasn't willing to go higher than that before resorting to dragging someone down the aisle.
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Heard an interview with the guy who filmed it. He said they picked the passengers "at random" but it was really an algorithm based on the cost of the ticket and when the ticket was purchased. Sounded like they didn't ask for volunteers and instead told 4 specific people.

Next flight wasn't until 2pm the next day.

All this to fly 4 employees (a crew) to Louisville. Seems like the smart move would be to book the crew on another airline instead of "reaccomodating" paying passengers.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
On a US Airways flight from Charlotte to Las Vegas last May, a flight attendant asked me to move from my exit row aisle seat (which I had specifically requested and purchased over a month in advance) to a middle seat two rows behind me just so a married couple could sit next to each other. All I said was, "No thanks! I'm comfortable." She looked at me like I had stolen something and said, "Do I need to call security?" I moved... but damn that left a bad taste in my mouth. You have no rights aboard a plane. It's like being in jail.
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Oh hell no. Tell that ***** to move someone from that row to the exit row if anything.
 
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Maybe this is all fake news. Probably the so-called passenger is a illegal alien and those guys jerking him out of his seat were ICE agents?
 
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This would be the definition of excessive police force... if police officers didn't shoot unarmed citizens on the regular.
 
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I hardly ever fly and the first real experience with United was enough to make me never voluntarily choose them ever again.

This guy won't have to see anymore patients if he doesn't want to because he'll be retired with millions, sitting on a beach in Tahiti.

BowlBrother85: I'd have made that bltch call security.
 
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I'd want to get them up to $1,000 then take the bump, but it being Sunday and probably needed to be at work on Monday, I can understand why a lot of people wouldn't.

PTO is a lot harder to replace.

United just decided to royally sh!t the bed.
 
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United effed up when they allowed the guy to board the plane. Once he's there and in a seat, their own policy does not speak to if they can deny him the seat or not (only at the gate). You have to chalk that up to a mistake on your part at that point and let him have it.

There were other ways to get that crew to Louisville (driving, another flight).
 
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utvolpj said:
Feds acting as enforcers for corporations. What could go wrong?
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It's probably within United's legal right to use law enforcement to enforce their property rights....but that doesn't make this right.

United could win in court but they will settle. The biggest problem is tge public outcry....they would pay millions to make this go away. Tjey will change their policy
 
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Nothing like doubling down on stupid...

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/...ideo-as-lawmakers-call-for-investigation.html

United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz said the passenger seen in a viral video who was dragged, bloodied off his company’s plane on Sunday had “defied” security officers and had become “disruptive and belligerent,” even as some lawmakers called for an investigation into the incident.

Munoz issued a statement Monday to employees defending the airline’s widely derided actions in forcibly removing a passenger from a Chicago flight bound for Louisville. The man who was taken off the plane has not been named, but he identified himself as a doctor during the debacle and another passenger said the man said he was of Chinese descent. The man was asked to leave in order to accommodate the seating of several United crew members.

“This situation was unfortunately compounded when one of the passengers we politely asked to deplane refused and it became necessary to contact Chicago Aviation Security Officers to help,” Munoz wrote.

He added: “Treating our customers and each other with respect and dignity is at the core of who we are, and we must always remember this no matter how challenging the situation.”
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n_huffhines said:
It's probably within United's legal right to use law enforcement to enforce their property rights....but that doesn't make this right.

United could win in court but they will settle. The biggest problem is tge public outcry....they would pay millions to make this go away. Tjey will change their policy
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Yep... United stock is down 3% right now.
 
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