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re: United's dragged passenger hires high-powered Chicago personal injury lawyer
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:02 am to Open Your Eyes
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:02 am to Open Your Eyes
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Have you not been paying attention the last 48 hours? They are already well past the point of no return of a PR nightmare. There are direct quotes from the CEO that, from a PR perspective, blame the entire incident on the passenger.
The continued PR nightmare of fighting it. This story needs to go away for United. Settling helps that along.
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Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:02 am to DisplacedBuckeye
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With terms and conditions that he agreed to.
You still running this line?
Show us these mythical terms you speak of.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:04 am to Open Your Eyes
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if united is really as in the clear as you keep insisting they are they will not settle, take this to court, and win big.
You keep saying this as if we aren't all completely aware of why companies choose to avoid drawn out court cases with customers.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:04 am to Hangover Haven
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Put yourself in that situation... You have to go work the next morning to see clients, you're next to your wife or girlfriend, assuming you have one, and she doesn't have to get off... Which put things in a bad situation as well.. So she has to get off...
Frick that, I hope United pays through their arse...
Tough call for me. Despite all of the frequent flyer experts in here saying you gotta know the rules, I honestly would have had no idea they could pull you at random and would be shocked if they did so. I would be torn between wanting to make a scene and also knowing you can't frick around on a plane. I probably would have left on my own, but yelling frick United the whole way out.
The physician thing makes no difference to me. That guy is no more important than some trashy person who needs to get home to his kid or spouse.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:04 am to DisplacedBuckeye
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I don't care.
That's cute. I still don't think you know what the word means.
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Because they're capable of looking at charts...
So these are some new charts they didn't have access to the last 48 hours? Or they just weren't capable of reading these charts before?
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:04 am to NYNolaguy1
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I predict a lot of informed opinions in this thread.
I dislike most of the airlines like everyone else, but the legality of this case does fascinate me. From a business standpoint, United fricked up royally, but I'm not sure if they violated anything in their contract of carriage.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:06 am to slackster
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From a business standpoint, United fricked up royally, but I'm not sure if they violated anything in their contract of carriage.
They admitted yesterday this was not an oversold flight. IDB and VDB policies go out the window at that point.
I'm not sure they had legal standing to kick him off.
This post was edited on 4/12/17 at 8:06 am
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:07 am to NYNolaguy1
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You still running this line?
Show us these mythical terms you speak of.
United Contract of Carriage
It all boils down to the definition of "boarding." I've seen articles that suggest boarding isn't complete until the plane leaves the gate, which would suggest United didn't violate their policy.
ETA: Your point about being oversold is a good one as well. Like I said, I'm interested in what their legal standing may have been, even though I'm fully aware they are bastards for handling it in this manner.
This post was edited on 4/12/17 at 8:09 am
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:07 am to Tiger in NY
My brotha! Don't be so ANGRY!!!!
All BS aside, he really shoulda just got up and walked off as the others did, and UA should have just kept upping the voucher value.
All BS aside, he really shoulda just got up and walked off as the others did, and UA should have just kept upping the voucher value.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:07 am to Tiger in NY
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frick that whiny bitch. He should have just gottwn off the plan like an adult. United was wrong, but it's their plane. I'm tired of people feeling entitled to just get their way all the time.
My man.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:07 am to PrivatePublic
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Sure, but this guy is going to claim millions in injuries, which is equally fricked up.
I'd be willing to let somebody drag me off a plan for a few million.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:08 am to slackster
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all boils down to the definition of "boarding." I've seen articles that suggest boarding isn't complete until the plane leaves the gate, which would suggest United didn't violate their policy.
Right, but most if not all of the policies in there refer to flights that were oversold. That's not the case here.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:08 am to stendulkar
I mean, any award exceeding 50k would be ludicrous. Here's a few grand. Here's a public apology. Go back to pushing pills.
This post was edited on 4/12/17 at 8:09 am
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:09 am to slackster
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The continued PR nightmare of fighting it. This story needs to go away for United. Settling helps that along.
Not screwing over paying customers in favor of employees, offering higher voucher amounts to entice volunteers, not assaulting a customer while forcible removing him from the seat he already paid for, company press releases and the CEO not blaming the entire situation on said passenger, not leaking said passenger's history out to the media, etc.
These are the actions of a company concerned with ending a PR nightmare.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:10 am to dewster
LEO asked him to get off. he didn't. He got dragged off. Just like being told to leave a store or private property and you don't after LEO asks you to. You gonna get your arse drug out. I see no problem here. They should have pepper sprayed him once off the plane for future consideration.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:11 am to Tiger in NY
The obesssion with psychopathic law and order, property and possession and adornment of corporations and business is the ugly and dark aspect of this nice culcha .
Y'all lose compassion and empathy for entities y'all aren't even associated with. It's psychopathic
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frick that whiny bitch. He should have just gottwn off the plan like an adult. United was wrong, but it's their plane. I'm tired of people feeling entitled to just get their way all the time.
Y'all lose compassion and empathy for entities y'all aren't even associated with. It's psychopathic
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:11 am to stendulkar
I thought this "doctor" had to be at work since Monday?
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:13 am to Pecker
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You keep saying this as if we aren't all completely aware of why companies choose to avoid drawn out court cases with customers.
Companies also don't let situations like these reach the point this situation has. United has demonstrated a whole new approach to dealing with this, completely and repeatedly blaming the customer. That approach, coupled with so many of yall's assurance they were complexly within their rights to do what they did, should make it a very easy decision for them to take this to court and continue berating this guy.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:14 am to Jimmy2shoes
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LEO asked him to get off. he didn't. He got dragged off. Just like being told to leave a store or private property and you don't after LEO asks you to. You gonna get your arse drug out. I see no problem here. They should have pepper sprayed him once off the plane for future consideration.
This is what happens when people don't do as they're told, asserting their "rights". It's bullshite.
Posted on 4/12/17 at 8:16 am to StrongSafety
So this guy should get some insane judgement because of this incident?
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