United Airlines New Seating Chart

[Hoosier_Vol]

United's PR person=Worse Job in America this week

 

[joevol33]

😬

 

[Grand Vol]

In order to prevent such altercations from happening in the future, United has announced a new tool their flight attendants can use to be more persuasive.

 

[05_never_again]

Here's a question: was this flight actually overbooked, or did United just throw paying customers off so their employees could fly? If it is the latter, then perhaps the flight wasn't even overbooked to begin with and they said it was to justify removing people from the plane.

 

[UT-Rex]

Aren't they supposed to be "the friendly skies"?

Apparently, they get very grumpy with certain passengers who prefer to stay aboard and actually want to get up there in the first place.

 

[Grand Vol]

I know it's a joke, but I'd bet United, American and Southwest are loving the passengers changing airlines:

 

[n_huffhines]

I know it's a joke, but I'd bet United, American and Southwest are loving the passengers changing airlines:

I love SW Airlines. They are probably the most historically significant airline. They are the ones that beat the monopoly system we had running up until the 1970s.

 

[WallyBalls]

It really does suck, though.

I used to LOVE to fly. Now, the overbooking bumps, random cancellations with garbage refund policies, your bags getting rifled through or destroyed, and starting the process every time with the general absolute awfulness of the TSA...it just sucks.

 

[bigdaddy]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aol.com/amp/2017/04/11/united-airlines-doctors-dark-past/

Just leaving this here

 

[n_huffhines]

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[Septic]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aol.com/amp/2017/04/11/united-airlines-doctors-dark-past/

Just leaving this here

Irrelevant.

Until people demand their legislators reinstate our constitutional rights - the airlines will treat travelers like fare paying cattle.

This is what it looks like to not have rights.

 

[05_never_again]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.aol.com/amp/2017/04/11/united-airlines-doctors-dark-past/

Just leaving this here

That's really amazing. I know that information can be presented under the guise of "we are just reporting facts" but it is totally irrelevant to what happened.

What exactly is the purpose of publishing that? What is it implying? That what happened to him is OK because he's a shady doctor?

 

[BearCat204]

That's really amazing. I know that information can be presented under the guise of "we are just reporting facts" but it is totally irrelevant to what happened.

What exactly is the purpose of publishing that? What is it implying? That what happened to him is OK because he's a shady doctor?

Guarantee that United rushed to dig this up.

 

[n_huffhines]

 

[05_never_again]

Guarantee that United rushed to dig this up.

I think it could have been the Louisville Courier-Journal (where it seems to have first appeared this morning, and has been picked up by others since then).

The doctor is apparently at least somewhat known in town and has a clinic there (edit: actually Elizabethtown which is about 45 minutes away). Someone working for the paper could have dug that up rather quickly with a records search or perhaps simply remembered hearing about it.

 

[Septic]

Guarantee that United rushed to dig this up.

The CEO's comments on the matter were laughable. Dude should be canned immediately and their PR crisis firm should be taken out back and be beaten with aisle seat arm rests.

$5 says that the airlines start prohibiting video recording devices somehow. Maybe they'll start requiring phones to be checked.

You know, because all them terries.

 

[Biopsyman]

There are few choices based on the city that you live by..

 

[Biopsyman]

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.

If you're a frequent flyer no amount of money is worth it you just want to get home

 

[05_never_again]

The CEO's comments on the matter were laughable. Dude should be canned immediately and their PR crisis firm should be taken out back and be beaten with aisle seat arm rests.

$5 says that the airlines start prohibiting video recording devices somehow. Maybe they'll start requiring phones to be checked.

You know, because all them terries.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if some airlines start charging $25 or $50 as a "guaranteed booking fee" that guarantees you won't be bumped even if the flight is overbooked and there aren't enough volunteers.

 

[barknoxbrawler]

Troll job or truth, either way......this is a win!

Sorry for the post again guys! Just saw it from earlier!

 

[05_never_again]

Also a bit surprising in all of this is that it doesn't appear to be common knowledge that airlines overbook, or what overbooking even exactly means/entails. Purely anecdotal, but every article I've read about it goes into detail about what it means and is filled with commenters who claim to not know this occurs.

 

[Biopsyman]

I love SW Airlines. They are probably the most historically significant airline. They are the ones that beat the monopoly system we had running up until the 1970s.

The Little stage act and bad jokes by the flight attendants get old.. very old

 

[BigZiti09]

This guy refused to get off the plane, right? What should have happened? Just keep asking until you find someone who goes along willingly?

Overbooking the flight was the mistake made by United. Removing him wasn't the mistake.

Looks to me like an entitled, overly dramatic, self-important doctor got removed from a plane after he refused to comply.

 

[Lawrence Wright]

This guy refused to get off the plane, right? What should have happened? Just keep asking until you find someone who goes along willingly?

Overbooking the flight was the mistake made by United. Removing him wasn't the mistake.

Looks to me like an entitled, overly dramatic, self-important doctor got removed from a plane after he refused to comply.

Not sure if serious......the point at which I've already paid for a ticket and boarded the plane, and not committed any unlawful acts that warrant getting removed from the flight, that's the point where cops are gonna have to drag my ass off the plane too.

 

[Septic]

This guy refused to get off the plane, right? What should have happened? Just keep asking until you find someone who goes along willingly?

Overbooking the flight was the mistake made by United. Removing him wasn't the mistake.

Looks to me like an entitled, overly dramatic, self-important doctor got removed from a plane after he refused to comply.

Overbooking was United's problem, not his. Removing him apparently, was a mistake. And yes, they should have started asking people, sweetening the pot until someone's "price" was met.

One person offered to get off in his place for $1,600 and was laughed at by the gate agent.

I'm guessing that's looking like a bargain now.

From one instigator to another, your troll game is strong but you have flaws in your approach.