United Airlines New Seating Chart

#151
#151
LouderVol said:
everyone overbooks counting on cancellations or late arrivals, last minute changes etc to even it out. better in there minds to risk overbooking than having an empty seat.
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Bad business at best, bordering on fraud at worst IMO. Selling seats that aren't actually available. If someone pays a legally negotiated price for a ticket then the airline should be bound to honor that agreement.
 
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#152
#152
n_huffhines said:
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Lawrence Wright said:
You won't believe what happens next...
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Outstanding, gentlemen.
 
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#153
#153
DancingOutlaw said:
$1600 would have gotten someone off that plane and on its way without a peep.

For $800 United lost $1B in market cap today. Sound business move.
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And the Doctor screamed for about 9 seconds so I'm guessing he will get a million per second totalling 9M.

Fight the friendly skies.

No seating, you take a beating.
 
#157
#157
The lawyer scumbags will make all the dough. The doctor will get his green card pulled and kicked out of the country, hopefully.
 
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#159
Yankee_Vol said:
Not saying what he did is comparable to a ticket by any means, but it was awhile ago.
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Come on yankee. We all make mistakes in life. Let's keep it real though. This guy is running a pill mill and people are seriously saying "this man was just trying to get home to his patients."
 
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#160
BowlBrother85 said:
That is hard to watch. If you didn't know it's context you would think that he had threatened to blow up the plane.
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He might have gotten better treatment if he were a terrorist. Its the rest of us that have to suffer under the heel of this toxic matrix we live in.
 
#161
#161
BigZiti09 said:
Come on yankee. We all make mistakes in life. Let's keep it real though. This guy is running a pill mill and people are seriously saying "this man was just trying to get home to his patients."
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Has literally nothing to do with what happened to him
 
#162
#162
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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In retrospect, your gut would tell you that the company might want a do-over on that decision. But in reality, they'll probably do the same thing 100 more times if given the chance.
 
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#163
golfballs said:
Has literally nothing to do with what happened to him
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I know what you're saying and I agree to an extent.

I just can't buy the "oh the poor doctor just wanted to get home to his patients" crap I've seen posted and talked about. This guy was being a jerk and got removed after he refused to go when asked. I wouldn't doubt that if the entire chain of events was recorded people would feel different about this guy.
 
#164
#164
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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Is your beef with the airline or with the couple that couldn't stand to not be seated next to each other for a few hours?
 
#166
#166
BigZiti09 said:
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.
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United would have come out better just cancelling the flight all together.
 
#170
#170
BigZiti09 said:
What fashion do you use to remove someone who won't go willingly?
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You act like an intelligent human being and think outside your little procedural box and....

*Stick one member of the flight crew in a car headed to Louisville and give them a bonus for doing it.

*Up the ante until somebody said yes voluntarily.

*Offer ground transportation and cash.

Etc
 
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#171
Hoosier_Vol said:
The United Airlines passenger who was hauled off an overbooked plane is a poker-playing doctor from Kentucky with a sordid past.

Dr. David Dao, 69, who was captured in a now-viral video being forcibly dragged off the Louisville-bound flight at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Sunday, was working as a doctor specializing in pulmonary disease in Elizabethtown when he was convicted of trading prescription drugs for sexual favors.

According to documents filed with the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, Dao was arrested in 2003 on the drug-related offenses following an undercover investigation.
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1. Why does it matter?
2. What is the matter with the two items highlighted above?
 
#172
#172
The United CEO will be on Good Morning America tomorrow. It will be interesting to hear his position du jour.
 
#174
#174
No idea why anyone in their right mind would argue United's case on this. Was it legal? Probably. Are they big ****ing *******s? Definitely.
 
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#175
GAVol said:
You act like an intelligent human being and think outside your little procedural box and....

*Stick one member of the flight crew in a car headed to Louisville and give them a bonus for doing it.

*Up the ante until somebody said yes voluntarily.

*Offer ground transportation and cash.

Etc
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I know there are FAA rules about down time but I bet you could pay a bonus to a crew member already in Louisville to fill in for the specific flight they needed to cover.

IOW - I agree - plenty of solutions
 
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