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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why the passenger thought he was so important the IDB rules didn't apply to him. I know he claimed to be a doctor, but...I just don't understand it. Airlines don't deny boarding to people based on the important of their jobs. Is there something else going on here?[/quote]

I don't care if he were a welfare cheat.  This shouldn't happen to anybody.[/quote]

Right. But why didn't he just get off the plane? I fly 100K+ miles a year and I just don't understand this situation. That's where everything went wrong, so I'm not sure why everyone's harping on United.

(And for the record, I DESPISE United and haven't flown them in 20 years. But I don't understand the uproar.)[/quote]

Are you a flight attendent?  did you fly those miles as an employee of united (or some similar airline)?

would you really just obediently get off the flight?  would you just say "oh well!  I didn't really need to go to that job interview!  I'm sure something else will come up" or "I didn't really want to go to my father's funeral?"  Or did you say "good thing I gave up all my vacation so I can fly one day early just in case this happens?"[/quote]

I just said I haven't flown United in 20 years. I fly DL and AA, not as an employee.

And yes, I have obediently gotten off flights after being bumped. Only twice, but it's happened.[/quote]

Well, then you are a sheep.  I hope I'd do what that man did.[/quote]

No, I'm not a sheep. I simply understand the conditions of carriage when I buy an airline ticket. It's really not complicated.[/quote]

Then United needs to print in bold on its tickets (and as a condition of purchase of that ticket) that at any time before the flight takes off, united has the right to remove you from the aircraft for any reason whatsoever without compensation. [/quote]

This would not be enough.  They should try to fix this in a reasonable way.  A reasonable way would be to offer $2000 or even more so that some retired people or some person with a very flexible job took them up on it.  If a 70 year old man wants to go home, they should not make him spend an entire day in an airport due to their lack of planning.[/quote]

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