Man forcibly removed from overbooked United flight

[Jkhein]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/26/ba-offloads-british-couple-military-base-business-class-row/

attention and greed for money Mistreatment going international?

[Emkay]

Am I the only one who has no sympathy for this guy?

Nope. I wanted UA to pay but didn't want him getting a penny.

[as2]

will he go after the chicago police or whoever they are?

Nope. As per his attorney, he will not peruse charges against them, as United has taken full responsibility.

[as2]

Am I the only one who has no sympathy for this guy?

Nah, I'm right there with you. He was not treated properly, but he was being a complete PITA on the plane, and asking for it.

[David Smith]

Nope. As per his attorney, he will not peruse charges against them, as United has taken full responsibility.

That was the whole point. It was hush money to get the story out of the news already.

[David Smith]

Any reason this thread is in GD instead of JS?

[ChaimMoskowitz]

Any reason this thread is in GD instead of JS?

This is an important discussion so it belongs here.

[yelped]

As, I've posted before, I agree 100% with Dan.

[Oceanblue]

I mean, clearly from his history this is not an regular upstanding citizen.
Maybe he even did this for the money, who knows?

Still, they were too rough with him.

I think his history gives some context to why he was so adamant about seeing his patients the next day. if he was given a second chance to be a doctor, don't you think he'd try extra hard to be there for his patients?  He was all set to deplane initially until they told him the next flight would be the next day, so I don't know how you could think he was doing it for the money.

[Dan]

I think his history gives some context to why he was so adamant about seeing his patients the next day. if he was given a second chance to be a doctor, don't you think he'd try extra hard to be there for his patients?  He was all set to deplane initially until they told him the next flight would be the next day, so I don't know how you could think he was doing it for the money.

I never said he was doing it for the money. I said who knows and quite frankly who cares.

[ExGingi]

http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/331576-congress-threatens-action-against-airlines-in-wake-of-united-incident

Is this a positive outcome?

I like the fact that they bring up those ridiculous "contracts of carriage".

[Yehuda25]

http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/331576-congress-threatens-action-against-airlines-in-wake-of-united-incident

Is this a positive outcome?

I like the fact that they bring up those ridiculous "contracts of carriage".

Love it, its time for all companies to end these ridiculous one sided contracts.

[ExGingi]

Love it, its time for all companies to end these ridiculous one sided contracts.

Won't end them, but given that these contracts are "contracts of adhesion", and I haven't read any of them all the way through, but from what I understand they are quite unilateral, in that the Airline can reneg on it (or at least is not obligated to much, if anything), but not the consumer, it's about time those facts are brought to proper light, so that the airlines are shamed into changing them into contracts that provide some kind of guarantees and protections for the consumer.

[Dawie]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-united-first-class-seat-sheila-jackson-lee-20171225-story.html
$500 for 140k miles???

[EJB]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-united-first-class-seat-sheila-jackson-lee-20171225-story.html
$500 for 140k miles???

I thought that was for a short flight on a longer itinerary

[Dawie]

I thought that was for a short flight on a longer itinerary

could be
they also put her in Economy PLus

[EJB]

could be
they also put her in Economy PLus

Tzaddikim. She prob did cancel her flight as well (ua offered her a new flight Bc of delay. She prob accepted it without knowing)