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tj444 -> RE: United again...Forces doc off an overbooked flight (4/13/2017 6:31:55 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam
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ORIGINAL: AtUrCervix
The flight was overbooked.
It was overbooked because there was a United flight (delayed) in Chicago that needed additional flight crew.
Those flight crew....not arriving in Chicago...timely...would have delayed a flight with a similar number of passengers as the flight where this fellow was pulled off.
United owns that airplane.
That airplane could produce (in Chicago...by virtue of providing said 4 employees)...a flight that could then therefore cause said (concurring) flight to occur.
If you have any doubt about any of the above....see the red highlighted section above.
When you own the airplane (and don't sell tickets with fine print that allows you to cause other flights....in airplanes that you own....to arrive on time by virtue of putting your staff in same)....feel free to be butt hurt.
Until then...United was in the right.
It sucked. It was awful for the fellow that got pulled off the plane (that was owned by United).
The man who bought a ticket....agreed to the terms.
(Call the waaaaaaaambulance).
Thus endeth the lesson ###END###
As cited above, they violated their own rules.
Seriously, I don't know if your liberalism, your ignorance or your corporate bootlicking is taking center stage.
If they did things right, how come ALL 3 of the security agents are now suspended AND they are refunding fares for the whole planeload of people?
You're sounding like bosco. Lying about things to cover up your abject ignorance.
it was (apparently) more than United violating their own "rules", it was ILLEGAL according to a lawyer who sued shite corps like Bank of America (& won his clients part of BofA's 16 Billion fraud settlement)... so I think he may just know what he is talking about.. and, now we are hearing of other people who were already boarded being told to get off (or get taken off in handcuffs).. even in first class, apparently, so someone "more important" could board at the last minute.. geeze, if you can afford a first class ticket then you can afford to fly with a different airline, what doesnt United understand about that?.. [8|]
"“It’s illegal,” Mahany, who was part of a $16.6 billion fraud settlement with Bank of America in 2015 and specializes in consumer protection, told International Business Times in an interview Wednesday. “You can’t remove, under the current rules, a passenger once they’re seated on the aircraft. You can deny them entry if you’re overbooked, but once they’re on the aircraft, it’s a completely different set of rules.”
United, like all airlines, has protocol in place for overbooking incidents, said Mahany. Under United’s Rule 25: Denied Boarding Compensation, the airline lays out its responsibilities in dealing with an overbooked flight, but the rule deals only with passengers who have not yet boarded the plane.
Per these rules, the company would have had to deny entry to the passenger before, not after, he boarded the plane. In order to require someone to leave the plane who is already seated, Mahany said, they would need to provide a lawful reason.
“If they’re not dressed appropriately, if they have certain communicable diseases, if they’re drunk, if they’re violent, you can remove them,” he said. “If they don’t turn off their cell phone when they’re supposed to, you can remove them. If they won’t obey lawful instructions from a crew member, you can remove them. But telling someone, ‘Hey, we’ve overbooked, get off the plane,’ that wouldn’t be a lawful instruction.”
LawNewz, a website run by legal correspondent Dan Abrams, agreed that the company acted illegally when it forced the passenger to de-plane. The Department of Transportation's Office of Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings said in a statement Tuesday that it had begun reviewing what happened on the flight."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/united-airlines-dragging-passenger-off-201302721.html
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