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United Airlines knew the guy was a ethnic MINORITY by his last name. Duh.
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Lots of people have "ethnic" last names due to marriage who are not that minority, and vice versa.

United messed up in this situatino in many ways, but I really doubt they are targeting Asians as part of some master plan to discriminate.[/quote]

Unfortunately for United, many people in Asia don't see it that way now.  [/quote]

Foreign carriers make up 2/3 of the service from the Far East to the US:
https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/US%20International%20Air%20Passenger%20and%20Freight%20Statistics%20Report%20for%20December%202015.pdf

So United doesn't have much to lose.

Also, their stock is up today to where it was before the incident:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UAL?p=UAL

How quickly people forget...[/quote]

United invested in flights to large cities in China seeing it as a growth market. This will be a problem for them.  Mark my words, their earnings will fall this year and their stock will suffer when earning results come out next quarter. [/quote]

Yes, but it's not a lot. Seasonal service to Xi'an 3x a week. 3x a week service to Chengdu and Hangzhou. All their other flights are to the Beijing and Shanghai, just like other US carriers.

So United sells more seats per day on the Washington-San Francisco route than they sell in a week to Chengdu, Xi'an, and Hangzhou. [/quote]

It's not only the Chinese that are absolutely disgusted.[/quote]

but the dude isn't even Chinese![/quote]

He's ethically Chinese, but of Vietnamese nationality (originally....he's a full blooded American citizen today).

The Chinese are all over Asia, have been living in other Asian countries for hundreds of years.[/quote]
Whatever he is, he's definitely a hero, an American hero. 
We should all be proud of what he did for the American consumer of aviation services. The public humiliation that he endured will help fix chokehold that the airline giants have held over us. Change will happen, thanks to the outrageous treatment he received at the hands of United Airlines.[/quote]

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