United hasn't exactly displayed good sense at any stage in this incident, but I find it hard to believe that even they would be dumb enough to let this get to trial.

Anonymous wrote:United didn't pull him off of the flight, the Chicago Department of Aviation Security did. United Airlines wanted him off of the plane, he didn't comply, so they called security.

I believe they are a great airline and I will continue to give them my business.

Shill.

maybe he really wanted/needed to get back for an early appointment but his wife didn't so she got off before all this went down?

Anonymous wrote:This may have been asked on here already, so apologies. News reports I read say that Dr. Dao was traveling with his wife. So on top of everything else am I to understand that United was looking to split up a married couple who was traveling together? Or was his wife asked to leave to and she complied? Man, I hate United.

I read on cnn they they both originally agreed to take the $800 but when they realized the flight was the next day they changed their mind.

"Dao and his wife initially agreed to get off the plane, passenger Jayse Anspach said. But once they found out that the next flight wasn't until Monday afternoon, he demurred and sat back, saying he was a physician who needed to get to work the next day."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/12/travel/united-passenger-pulled-off-flight/index.html

But I am not sure if they were both bumped or just him. But if they booked their tickets together I think it would be odd the computer would pick just him and not both members of the couple.

Does anyone know the answer, was the wife one of the 4 selected? I wonder b/c either she did get up since he was sitting alone when then incident happened, or they were sitting separately.

This may have been asked on here already, so apologies. News reports I read say that Dr. Dao was traveling with his wife. So on top of everything else am I to understand that United was looking to split up a married couple who was traveling together? Or was his wife asked to leave to and she complied? Man, I hate United.

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Anonymous wrote:Boy, there are some dim people participating here. Federal workers with time to waste maybe.

Former frequent flyer here. I'm furious about this issue because it could have been me.

Or me.

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Anonymous wrote:Can I ask one, maybe dumb question-- but why on earth is there a ceiling on how much an airline can pay someone to be bumped!?

Lobbyists, airline lobbyists.

But to what end?

Skyrocketing profits. Greed.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it odd that people are fighting so hard for United - which is notorious for poor customer service.

I just cannot believe that so many of you would be so understanding if this happened to you. Airline wants your seat so they can move a crew to another airport. They say the BEST they can do for you is $800 restricted voucher and a flight out the FOLLOWING afternoon. Most of us would be pissed! Damn a "gracious acceptance." I probably would have de-planed one the police came but I would have been giving the blues to any and every United employee I saw.

My mother is a former gate agent for another airline and she said that in situations like this - people being bumped for crew - they were told to do whatever they could to make it right and they were given carte blanche as to what they could offer. $800 voucher and flight out 24 hours later was not a bona fide offer - hence, why no one took it.

as i said upthread, it's the incompetence of low-cost labor that screwed this one up for United.

Did you miss everything their jerk CEO had to say? United is incompetent... from the TOP down.

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Anonymous wrote:United didn't pull him off of the flight, the Chicago Department of Aviation Security did. United Airlines wanted him off of the plane, he didn't comply, so they called security.

I believe they are a great airline and I will continue to give them my business.

What is great about them?

They are my employer

Anonymous wrote:United didn't pull him off of the flight, the Chicago Department of Aviation Security did. United Airlines wanted him off of the plane, he didn't comply, so they called security.

I believe they are a great airline and I will continue to give them my business.

Whatever, you are hysterical. Have fun getting the crap beat out of you.

I read an eye witness account (of the KY HS teacher who was chaperoning the high school group) one of the police was laughing while he did it. Does that police brutality work for you? Guess it does.

Anonymous wrote:United didn't pull him off of the flight, the Chicago Department of Aviation Security did. United Airlines wanted him off of the plane, he didn't comply, so they called security.

I believe they are a great airline and I will continue to give them my business.

I seriously doubt they'll have a good summer season.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting article about why the compensation offer probably topped out at an $800 voucher - http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2017/04/11/united-denied-boarding-fiasco/

Thanks! So interesting

That is interesting! Particularly the part about the Continental IT system.

+1. I would love to know what they are doing with all those keystrokes.

HAHAHAHAHA....

Thanks for the laugh.

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Anonymous wrote:The plaintiff has lawyered up, with TWO major law firms. I smell an ENORMOUS settlement. The UA CEO keeps digging deeper and deeper, as he could NOT get the apology right the first time. No sympathy here.

I really hope he doesn't settle. His lawyers already asked the public to preserve the evidence. Oh, by the way, UAL is reimbursing all of the passengers on the said flight, I bet they will require them to sign some sort of waiver to get the refund! I bet they're hoping they upped the voucher price now.

Yes. United needs to guarantee the payment of medical bills for all the PTSD treatment of the witnesses to the bloody criminal assault unlawfully perpetrated by the airline.

You cannot get PTSD from that
I believe it was ground security that pulled him out. You really have be afraid of those.
I do not think United is any different from the way it bumps passengers. All airlines do it.

Delta is apparently much more fair and ethical than United. Shame on you people for what you did to this man.

Anonymous wrote:If he were black people would be saying "why didn't he listen to the commands".

Sad but true.

You have people saying that now. Did you read the thread?

If he were black people would be saying "why didn't he listen to the commands".

Sad but true.