Fourfoldroot wrote:Not at all. What's the alternative? Flight's offer pennies and then say "well you refused the compensation". Compensation has to be agreed between both parties. Negotiation is absolutely the way to do it. That's literally - literally - how settlements are reached. I can't believe you're in favour of the United Police marching through the cabin picking folk at random to throw off. |
And you thought Ryan Air were bad? (United are worse)
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CosmicFuzz 32,632 posts
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DFawkes 32,786 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThey could just not let too many people get on the flight in the first place. I get that overbooking happened but you're not obligated to just let everyone on your plane because they turned up.
As I understand it from articles I've read, they usually wouldn't overfill the and itself, but staff from the airline turned up late and they caused people that had got there on time to be forced out. Not sure how true it is of course.
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@Fourfoldroot you are an absolute prick.
Again, picking someone at random to give up their seat so that others who arrived later can take them is wrong!. forcing someone to leave a plane they have paid for is also WRONG. Forcefully dragging someone off a plane against their will is criminal!
If you must have people volunteer to leave a flight they should offer enough compensation that it becomes worthwhile to leave (and not forcefully drag someone from their seat).
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Waffleaber 826 posts
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Registered 17 years agoThere were no disgruntled passengers in the runway, United were kicking off paying customers so they could get their employees on the flight so they could work on another plane. What they should do in those situations is find another means of shuttling employees around. -
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CosmicFuzz 32,632 posts
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Registered 15 years agoHonestly, if someone came up to me on a plane and said i had to get off because more people had turned up after i got on and they got priority over me for some arbitrary reason, i wouldn't move. Just don't let the late folk on if they've overbooked.
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Registered 17 years agoAnd yet hundreds of thousands of flights a day manage to avoid a situation whereby someone is forcibly dragged down the aisles and off the flight.
How could this MIRACULOUS feat be achieved without raising all the prices? HOW, fourfoldroot? HOW?
Oh yeah - because most airlines, staff, and enforcement officers aren't knuckle-dragging muntcrunchers like those seen on the video here.
When people start losing their jobs over this are you going to defend them? Your stance is so strange, and yet you yourself have always been strange so I guess it's no great surprise. -
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Registered 17 years agoBlame the customer not the billion dollar corporations. Blane the immigrants not the system. Classic Fourfoldroot. -
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CosmicFuzz 32,632 posts
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Registered 15 years agoWaffleaber wrote:
Jesus that's even worse if so.
There were no disgruntled passengers in the runway, United were kicking off paying customers so they could get their employees on the flight so they could work on another plane. What they should do in those situations is find another means of shuttling employees around. -
RichDC 9,177 posts
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Registered 17 years agoOverbooking may well be standard practice, but it appears all paying passengers were sat down and it was airline staff (who weren't working on that flight) who needed seats. Surely there is no way they actually take priority over customers, especially to the point we're sometime was physically dragged off. -
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Registered 17 years agoAnd Fourfoldracist, too. -
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Registered 15 years agoIf it was just overbooking, the "excess" passengers would not have been able to board the plane in the first place. United was asking people to vacate a flight they had booked and paid for simply for the convenience of their own staff.
Fucking amazing* that people are trying to justify United's actions here.
*Maybe not considering the poster doing it.
Edit - or what RichDC said.
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Registered 13 years agoApparently his wife agreed to get off the plane for the $800 and whatever else they offered them but he refused and started phoning his lawyer. -
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Registered 15 years agoWell in that case they should have fucking shot him. -
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Registered 17 years agoWait, this was all over dead head seats? United staff fucked up and booked 4 people into a dead head seats?
FUUUUUUUUUUUCKING HELL.
If anyone is still trying to justify United's actions in this matter, stop right there.
"Passengers were told at the gate that the flight was overbooked and United, offering $400 and a hotel stay, was looking for one volunteer to take another flight to Louisville at 3 p.m. Monday. Passengers were allowed to board the flight, Bridges said, and once the flight was filled those on the plane were told that four people needed to give up their seats to stand-by United employees that needed to be in Louisville on Monday for a flight. Passengers were told that the flight would not take off until the United crew had seats, Bridges said, and the offer was increased to $800, but no one volunteered.
Think about it, you're sat on a flight, ready to go to your destination on a Sunday afternoon, and they come over the PA to offer you $800 and a hotel stay if you just get off the plane, airline's are already notorious for these "vouchers" involving catches like "if you pay for the hotel we'll refund you in a few weeks" and "$800 to spend in our duty free lounge" but most importantly if you take it you're missing work on Monday morning!
Then, she said, a manager came aboard the plane and said a computer would select four people to be taken off the flight. One couple was selected first and left the airplane, she said, before the man in the video was confronted."
They're not going to specify that shit until you get off the plane and then it's already too late, they used the carrot to get you off the seat.
What's most unsettling about this is how quickly a major corporation used the stick against the public just to ensure their operations ran smoothly.
Maybe if they weren't such cunts they would've been able to deadhead on another airlines flight but I bet they've refused other airlines requests in the past so that diplomatic option is closed.
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Registered 16 years agoUnited CEO says removed passenger was 'disruptive and belligerent'
"Our employees followed established procedures for dealing with situations like this," the Associated Press quoted the email as saying.
Maybe change your procedures then? It still doesn't explain why the 4 staff turned up late. Surely if they had turned up on time, there would've been no issue on the plane itself as the other 4 people would've been randomly chosen before getting on board the plane?
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Registered 17 years agoSo was the passenger being "belligerent and disruptive" after being requested to leave a flight he'd paid for? I thought he was selected at random? Something clearly doesn't add up in the airline's account.
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CosmicFuzz 32,632 posts
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Registered 15 years agoIf I was selected at random by a computer to get off a flight I'd paid for and turned up on time for, I'd probably be belligerent and disruptive too. Especially when security turned up to drag me out my seat.
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DFawkes wrote:
They were probably late due to a previous flight they were on. I wouldn't blame them but would definitely blame United's processes.
United CEO says removed passenger was 'disruptive and belligerent'
"Our employees followed established procedures for dealing with situations like this," the Associated Press quoted the email as saying.
Maybe change your procedures then? It still doesn't explain why the 4 staff turned up late. Surely if they had turned up on time, there would've been no issue on the plane itself as the other 4 people would've been randomly chosen before getting on board the plane?
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Bet they'd just flown in on another flight which was late and needed to deadhead back to crew another flight outbound of Louisville.
As a Scotsman I bet they'd deem me disruptive and belligerent if they told me they were kicking me off a flight because they had some of their homies that needed to fly instead.
"They can get tae fuck, you an all ya bawbag, awa an boil yer heid. Am nae leavin'"
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