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re: Video shows man forcibly removed from United flight from Chicago to Louisville
Posted on 4/10/17 at 10:58 am to StrongBackWeakMind
Posted on 4/10/17 at 10:58 am to StrongBackWeakMind
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Overbooking a plane is horseshite.
Hell no, I have over $1600 in credits because of this. Love seeing an oversold flight.
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Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:01 am to StringedInstruments
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frick that and frick you. No one should be physically removed from a plane if they paid for a ticket and checked in and boarded on time. Considering the authorities were called in, I'd say this is an excellent opportunity to change regulations on what airlines are allowed to put in their contracts.
First. Chill out. That's how you get removed from the plane.
Second. The vast majority of these overbooking situations come from equipment swaps and other flight delays. Not from just selling too many seats. United averaged 0.45 IDB's in 2016. That's 10 passengers out of the nearly 250,000 they transport daily.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:04 am to ThatMakesSense
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No. United overbooked by 4 passengers, they needed to have 4 get off for United crew to have their seats. No one volunteered..United randomly chose 4..the dude getting escorted off was 1 of 4 chosen.
Shitty luck.
No, that's shitty business. You keep raising the price until someone takes it. Fact. You don't force someone off a plane because you overbooked. Pretty ridiculous and another reason United is terrible.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:05 am to StringedInstruments
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frick that and frick you. No one should be physically removed from a plane if they paid for a ticket and checked in and boarded on time. Considering the authorities were called in, I'd say this is an excellent opportunity to change regulations on what airlines are allowed to put in their contracts.
Wipe away your tears and write your congressman if you have a problem with it.
Those are the rules.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:05 am to Brageous
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No, that's shitty business. You keep raising the price until someone takes it. Fact. You don't force someone off a plane because you overbooked. Pretty ridiculous and another reason United is terrible.
Yeah, I don't know why they stopped at $800 before removing. Especially to get a necessary crew to SDF.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:07 am to Golfer
I've heard upwards of 1500 or so before. I was one person away from 1200 recently on Delta and would have gotten home 3 hours later but they didn't need me. If they truly stopped at 800, that's on United. Can't believe they would do this knowing the backlash that would come from it.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:09 am to Brageous
Agreed. I think UA is once again getting a bad rap for people not understanding how these things work. But stopping at $800 for a crew issue was their problem.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:12 am to Nado Jenkins83
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dressed sloppy
Wow, something tells me that you are also not a doctor.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:12 am to Golfer
I've never been quick enough to accept these things. I always have my hand ready to shoot up once the offer gets a little bit better but someone always grabs it before me.
I think I might be quicker on the trigger next time, especially if its work. I can work from anywhere if I have my computer.
Give me $500 and a hotel or 4 hour wait and I'll be happy as hell. That's a round trip vacation to see my siblings in DC or Portland.
I think I might be quicker on the trigger next time, especially if its work. I can work from anywhere if I have my computer.
Give me $500 and a hotel or 4 hour wait and I'll be happy as hell. That's a round trip vacation to see my siblings in DC or Portland.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:17 am to TFS4E
Overbooking planes should be illegal unless its clearly stated as a "stand-by" ticket. I wouldn't mind a "no cancellations/reschedules within 48 hours" policy or paying a few bucks more to make sure I had a guaranteed spot. And if someone wants to buy a stand-by ticket to save a few bucks, then they know the risk they're taking. Nothing like fricking up a vacation by having an airline bump you to a later flight or next day on a ticket you had bought months ago because the POS airline overbooked.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:20 am to TFS4E
United's new seating arrangements.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:29 am to Golfer
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Agreed. I think UA is once again getting a bad rap for people not understanding how these things work. But stopping at $800 for a crew issue was their problem
UA could solve this problem by not overbooking. Just a thought.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:29 am to okietiger13
They should have said that the whole plane needed to deboard because of a mechanical issue. Then said, "just kidding", "first ### that get back on get to keep their seats".
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:32 am to NYNolaguy1
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UA could solve this problem by not overbooking. Just a thought.
This flight may not have even been overbooked. But again, IDB situations are extremely rare and no airline, including JetBlue, are exempt.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:34 am to TFS4E
Seeing this after the week of travel I had with another airline, I think I safely say frick all airlines.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:36 am to Golfer
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This flight may not have even been overbooked. But again, IDB situations are extremely rare and no airline, including JetBlue, are exempt.
Ok, but they sold tickets to a passenger knowing that theres a possibility they couldn't fulfill it, right? They even justify it by including weasel legalese in the carrier contract.
So if they had a policy against overbooking, you agree that this could have been avoided?
This post was edited on 4/10/17 at 11:40 am
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:37 am to GetCocky11
Yep. Give the $800 and a rent a car and I'm set.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:40 am to NYNolaguy1
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So if they had a policy against overbooking, you agree that this could have been avoided?
Nope. They could have sold exactly the number of seats available and still had this issue of needing to get a crew to SDF.
I'd argue what JetBlue does is worse. Advertising that they don't oversell, but due to equipment swaps and WX/MX delays, end up in VDB and IDB situations like this one.
This post was edited on 4/10/17 at 11:41 am
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:40 am to ruzil
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Wow, something tells me that you are also not a doctor.
why would I want to be a doctor. hospitals are gross
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:40 am to TJGator1215
Next time somebody tells that Chinaman to get off a plane I bet he by God gets off the damn plane.
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