A Man Was Dragged Off A United Plane After The Airline Overbooked The Flight

It's not even that the flight was oversold. United's crappy planning to get their own employees to a different destination was the cause of this? What an absolute disgrace. Not hard to figure out that United could give two shits about their customers.

 

I've been pretty anti United lately and now this is the dagger

 

This is horrifying

 

Will never fly United. That's terrifying.

 

Insane. But still better overall customer service than calling Comcast.

 

Fuck this, absolutely disgusting

 

I've been on the other end before - used to be a front desk manager at Disney World and there were times we were overbooked and had to turn people away. Generally it went smoothly (money talks - we would throw large sums of money, park tickets, etc at them to fix it). We never had an issue because the more desperate we were the more we paid up. If they couldn't get anyone to volunteer sounds like they needed to perhaps offer more $$$. The one time we couldn't get anyone to voluntary switch when that last check in came in and we had to move them it was basically a blank check.

 

I expected to click through it and think "another overblown situation" because of how sensitive the times are, but damn that is worse than I expected to see...

 

I'm gonna assign most of the blame here on United (technically their subcontractors - it's a Republic Airlines/United Express flight) and the Chicago aviation cops. Lord knows they shouldn't drag people off planes like this in this day and age when everyone has a video camera in their pocket especially as a result of what looks like it's the result of a logistics fuckup on their part. This should've been resolved before the plane was boarded and upped the ante for incentives before randomly bumping four people like that. They've inherited a nice PR nightmare for themselves as a result of bad logistics, terrible situational awareness as a result of employees, and some good ole'fashioned Chicago police brutality.

 

That was worse than I expected. Crazy that no one gets up and does anything to stop it aside from their remarks, but I guess if some passengers HAD to get off the plane, it was going to happen one way or another.

 

United is absolutely the worst airline, this doesn't shock me at all. They treat humans like cattle.

 

Aside from the obvious horrid things that occurred, this blows my mind.

Good time to offer flyers incentives for going on a different flight? When everyone's already checked in at the airport and still has an hour or two to kill.
Bad time to offer flyers incentives for going on a different flight? When, after all that waiting, they're loaded up on the plane and ready to go.

The obvious thing is "don't overbook flights" and the even more obvious thing is "don't cause physical trauma to your passengers" but the timing of all this is probably #3 on the list of 20-30 wrong things that just happened.

 

It also blows my mind seeing people (not here but in other places) say "Well at least he's gonna have a lot of money now so I don't feel sorry for him."

1. No
2. He's a doctor so I highly doubt he's hurting for money
3. Despite how money desperate we seem as a generation I'm sure not many people would ever want to go through that experience for money and I'm sure he'd forfeit it to not have to go through that
4. No
5. No

 

so, who is going to fly United after this and the leggings ordeal?

 

Probably most of the state of NJ since they have a near monopoly on all flights at Newark.

 

I've grown pretty frustrated with United over the years, but I've also had awful experiences with American. It's a shame the big 3 carriers (inc Delta) all suck.

 

So, obviously, they're blaming the guy because he "refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily". Fuck them a million times.

 

I'm looking forward to seeing what the size of that lawsuit is.

 

Lmfao...I have the best Comcast story but it would take pages to write...talk a disorganized company

 

Are there any actual good carriers

I'm genuinely curious, only Delta ever gave me a good experience and I'm like the only one

 

There are not.

 

Unless you go outside of North America, not really.

 

The obvious answer here was to up the money until someone bit. It's not like upping it from $800 to $1000+ was going to break United's bank or something.

 

Hold on a sec...wasn't this how the Hunger Games started?