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lakersken80 wrote: | Airlines have every right to overbook their flights...the only thing they did wrong was the overreaction to a guy who wasn't a threat to the safety of the flight crew. Perhaps offering more incentives to the customers would've resolved this situation peacefully or if the airline realizes the costs to put those 4 airline employees were too great they could've booked them on a competitors airline to get them to the destination....either way it was a poor solution to a problem. |
What gives them that right? Flights don't have standing room options. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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jodeke wrote: | lakersken80 wrote: | Airlines have every right to overbook their flights...the only thing they did wrong was the overreaction to a guy who wasn't a threat to the safety of the flight crew. Perhaps offering more incentives to the customers would've resolved this situation peacefully or if the airline realizes the costs to put those 4 airline employees were too great they could've booked them on a competitors airline to get them to the destination....either way it was a poor solution to a problem. |
What gives them that right? Flights don't have standing room options. |
They have the right to make sure their flights are filled to capacity and also to ensure they are making money. What they did wrong to haul the guy off the flight and leave him injured and bloodied. He was not a threat to the flight crew. That was what they did wrong. Don't forget just because the airline is booked doesn't mean it will be filled to capacity. There could be unforseen circumstances where the passenger couldn't make it to the flight, whether thru last minute cancellations or they didn't arrive in time, etc. |
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jodeke Retired Number
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lakersken80 wrote: | jodeke wrote: | lakersken80 wrote: | Airlines have every right to overbook their flights...the only thing they did wrong was the overreaction to a guy who wasn't a threat to the safety of the flight crew. Perhaps offering more incentives to the customers would've resolved this situation peacefully or if the airline realizes the costs to put those 4 airline employees were too great they could've booked them on a competitors airline to get them to the destination....either way it was a poor solution to a problem. |
What gives them that right? Flights don't have standing room options. |
They have the right to make sure their flights are filled to capacity and also to ensure they are making money. What they did wrong to haul the guy off the flight and leave him injured and bloodied. He was not a threat to the flight crew. That was what they did wrong. Don't forget just because the airline is booked doesn't mean it will be filled to capacity. There could be unforseen circumstances where the passenger couldn't make it to the flight, whether thru last minute cancellations or they didn't arrive in time, etc. |
I don't see why they wouldn't be able to fill all seats. Most flights have standby lists. Most flights have vacant seats. If flights aren't full seems as though the reason would be because there weren't enough people to fill them. I don't see a reason to overbook.
If anyone should have been inconvenienced I think it should have been the crew that caused the overbooking. I don't think any were pilots. The crew they were going to relieve should have been asked to do some OT. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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lakersken80 wrote: | jodeke wrote: | lakersken80 wrote: | Airlines have every right to overbook their flights...the only thing they did wrong was the overreaction to a guy who wasn't a threat to the safety of the flight crew. Perhaps offering more incentives to the customers would've resolved this situation peacefully or if the airline realizes the costs to put those 4 airline employees were too great they could've booked them on a competitors airline to get them to the destination....either way it was a poor solution to a problem. |
What gives them that right? Flights don't have standing room options. |
They have the right to make sure their flights are filled to capacity and also to ensure they are making money. What they did wrong to haul the guy off the flight and leave him injured and bloodied. He was not a threat to the flight crew. That was what they did wrong. Don't forget just because the airline is booked doesn't mean it will be filled to capacity. There could be unforseen circumstances where the passenger couldn't make it to the flight, whether thru last minute cancellations or they didn't arrive in time, etc. |
That's all true, but again, it isn't what went wrong here. Anyone who has traveled extensively by air has experienced overbooked flights. There is a routine ritual for dealing with the situation. Heck, there are people who are eager for overbooking situations because they want to snag the freebies.
What went wrong is that the passengers were already on the plane. It was NOT overbooked. Then United decided that it needed to boot four seated passengers for its own reasons. Once people are already on the plane and in their seats, it is going to be harder to get them to volunteer. And they didn't.
If it was another airline, you would say that this was astounding incompetence. In the case of United, it was just another day. |
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DaMuleRules wrote: | ringfinger wrote: | My comment was in response to DMR's comment that United prioritized the employees over the 4 passengers. That isn't entirely accurate. |
It's 100% accurate. Their problem was not overbooking. Their problem was screwing up their personnel rotations. No amount of your semantic games changes that. |
No, it's not 100% accurate DMR. Sorry.
The choice had to be either to pull 4 people off of Flight 3411, or, prevent hundreds of people from traveling on another flight. So they didn't prioritize the employees, they prioritized the hundreds of passengers and made the decision to inconvenience 4 instead of 200. It's not like they took off passengers and replaced them with 4 employees going on vacation or something. Man, whether it is "hacking" the election, you guys sure love to overstate the truth and then call semantics when challenged. lol.
Bottom line is that it doesn't matter if they screwed up their rotations or didn't plan well. This happens ALL the time. You do know this right? People are bumped off their flights all of the time, generally without incident. I want to say around 40,000 times in 2016 this happened.
And most of the time, it happens through no fault of the person being bumped which means most of the time, it is the fault of the airline not planning properly whether due to overbooking or faulty scheduling. This is nothing new and has been going on for years and years.
The only thing that is different in this case, is that the airlines didn't spend enough time or effort trying to prevent an unnecessary situation from occurring. That's why I say the issue isn't as much a legal one, as it is a customer service one. |
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ringfinger Retired Number
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Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2017 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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jodeke wrote: | lakersken80 wrote: | Airlines have every right to overbook their flights...the only thing they did wrong was the overreaction to a guy who wasn't a threat to the safety of the flight crew. Perhaps offering more incentives to the customers would've resolved this situation peacefully or if the airline realizes the costs to put those 4 airline employees were too great they could've booked them on a competitors airline to get them to the destination....either way it was a poor solution to a problem. |
What gives them that right? Flights don't have standing room options. |
You do. When you buy a plane ticket. |
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ringfinger wrote: | DaMuleRules wrote: | ringfinger wrote: | My comment was in response to DMR's comment that United prioritized the employees over the 4 passengers. That isn't entirely accurate. |
It's 100% accurate. Their problem was not overbooking. Their problem was screwing up their personnel rotations. No amount of your semantic games changes that. |
No, it's not 100% accurate DMR. Sorry.
The choice had to be either to pull 4 people off of Flight 3411, or, prevent hundreds of people from traveling on another flight. So they didn't prioritize the employees, they prioritized the hundreds of passengers and made the decision to inconvenience 4 instead of 200. It's not like they took off passengers and replaced them with 4 employees going on vacation or something. Man, whether it is "hacking" the election, you guys sure love to overstate the truth and then call semantics when challenged. lol.
Bottom line is that it doesn't matter if they screwed up their rotations or didn't plan well. This happens ALL the time. You do know this right? People are bumped off their flights all of the time, generally without incident. I want to say around 40,000 times in 2016 this happened.
And most of the time, it happens through no fault of the person being bumped which means most of the time, it is the fault of the airline not planning properly whether due to overbooking or faulty scheduling. This is nothing new and has been going on for years and years.
The only thing that is different in this case, is that the airlines didn't spend enough time or effort trying to prevent an unnecessary situation from occurring. That's why I say the issue isn't as much a legal one, as it is a customer service one. |
not necessarily ringfinger. It's not that United prioritized the hundreds of passengers in lieu of the 4 passenger. They prioritized monetary savings because there are other flights that the crew could take to get to their destination including other airlines |
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ringfinger wrote: | DaMuleRules wrote: | ringfinger wrote: | My comment was in response to DMR's comment that United prioritized the employees over the 4 passengers. That isn't entirely accurate. |
It's 100% accurate. Their problem was not overbooking. Their problem was screwing up their personnel rotations. No amount of your semantic games changes that. |
No, it's not 100% accurate DMR. Sorry.
The choice had to be either to pull 4 people off of Flight 3411, or, prevent hundreds of people from traveling on another flight. So they didn't prioritize the employees, they prioritized the hundreds of passengers and made the decision to inconvenience 4 instead of 200. It's not like they took off passengers and replaced them with 4 employees going on vacation or something. Man, whether it is "hacking" the election, you guys sure love to overstate the truth and then call semantics when challenged. lol.
Bottom line is that it doesn't matter if they screwed up their rotations or didn't plan well. This happens ALL the time. You do know this right? People are bumped off their flights all of the time, generally without incident. I want to say around 40,000 times in 2016 this happened.
And most of the time, it happens through no fault of the person being bumped which means most of the time, it is the fault of the airline not planning properly whether due to overbooking or faulty scheduling. This is nothing new and has been going on for years and years.
The only thing that is different in this case, is that the airlines didn't spend enough time or effort trying to prevent an unnecessary situation from occurring. That's why I say the issue isn't as much a legal one, as it is a customer service one. |
4 passengers X 1350
What if they used one of their extra planes to fly that crew ..
My whole argument was after you're on the plane barring national emergency the seat belongs to me. I shouldn't even be considered for removal. Especially against my will
United is in another tough spot.. a lot of this lays squarely in the lap of police brutality
SIXTY NINE YEARS OLD... young punk cop basically brutalizes an old Grandpa.
How will United hold the authorities responsible..without looking like they're deflecting or without pissing off the cops |
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ringfinger wrote: | DaMuleRules wrote: | ringfinger wrote: | My comment was in response to DMR's comment that United prioritized the employees over the 4 passengers. That isn't entirely accurate. |
It's 100% accurate. Their problem was not overbooking. Their problem was screwing up their personnel rotations. No amount of your semantic games changes that. |
No, it's not 100% accurate DMR. Sorry.
The choice had to be either to pull 4 people off of Flight 3411, or, prevent hundreds of people from traveling on another flight. So they didn't prioritize the employees, they prioritized the hundreds of passengers and made the decision to inconvenience 4 instead of 200. It's not like they took off passengers and replaced them with 4 employees going on vacation or something. Man, whether it is "hacking" the election, you guys sure love to overstate the truth and then call semantics when challenged. lol.
Bottom line is that it doesn't matter if they screwed up their rotations or didn't plan well. This happens ALL the time. You do know this right? People are bumped off their flights all of the time, generally without incident. I want to say around 40,000 times in 2016 this happened.
And most of the time, it happens through no fault of the person being bumped which means most of the time, it is the fault of the airline not planning properly whether due to overbooking or faulty scheduling. This is nothing new and has been going on for years and years.
The only thing that is different in this case, is that the airlines didn't spend enough time or effort trying to prevent an unnecessary situation from occurring. That's why I say the issue isn't as much a legal one, as it is a customer service one. |
This is why so many people here refrain from engaging you. Your disingenuous semantics games are pointless discussions.
The events that lead to Dao being removed from the flight had nothing to do with overbooking and was due to staffing issues - regardless of what was happening in Louisville, as several here have pointed out. Dao was NOT removed to accommodate other passengers. No amount of false rationalization is going to demonstrate otherwise and will neither deflect from nor erase that simple, obvious and core fact. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
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DaMuleRules wrote: | ringfinger wrote: | DaMuleRules wrote: | ringfinger wrote: | My comment was in response to DMR's comment that United prioritized the employees over the 4 passengers. That isn't entirely accurate. |
It's 100% accurate. Their problem was not overbooking. Their problem was screwing up their personnel rotations. No amount of your semantic games changes that. |
No, it's not 100% accurate DMR. Sorry.
The choice had to be either to pull 4 people off of Flight 3411, or, prevent hundreds of people from traveling on another flight. So they didn't prioritize the employees, they prioritized the hundreds of passengers and made the decision to inconvenience 4 instead of 200. It's not like they took off passengers and replaced them with 4 employees going on vacation or something. Man, whether it is "hacking" the election, you guys sure love to overstate the truth and then call semantics when challenged. lol.
Bottom line is that it doesn't matter if they screwed up their rotations or didn't plan well. This happens ALL the time. You do know this right? People are bumped off their flights all of the time, generally without incident. I want to say around 40,000 times in 2016 this happened.
And most of the time, it happens through no fault of the person being bumped which means most of the time, it is the fault of the airline not planning properly whether due to overbooking or faulty scheduling. This is nothing new and has been going on for years and years.
The only thing that is different in this case, is that the airlines didn't spend enough time or effort trying to prevent an unnecessary situation from occurring. That's why I say the issue isn't as much a legal one, as it is a customer service one. |
This is why so many people here refrain from engaging you. Your disingenuous semantics games are pointless discussions.
The events that lead to Dao being removed from the flight had nothing to do with overbooking and was due to staffing issues - regardless of what was happening in Louisville, as several here have pointed out. Dao was NOT removed to accommodate other passengers. No amount of false rationalization is going to demonstrate otherwise and will neither deflect from nor erase that simple, obvious and core fact. |
Well, I just disagree. Theres no semantics here. The 4 employees were to support anothet flight. If there was another flight in KY, this would never have happened. Its not the employees that wanted to go there, its UA that wanted them there. Why? For that other flight. Thats why I say they prioritized that other flight, the 4 passengers were just the means to ensure that flight left as intended. If it was 4 employees going on vaca and UA prioritized them in thar case, I'd agree with that point then.
Now I agree they screwed up because a) there were other flights and b) they didnt try hard enough. I'm just disagreeing with the notion the employees were prioritized.
Regardless of the reason why, they should never have called the police. The proper thing to do would have been to try harder to work it out peacefully with 4 passengers to make room.
I mean, almost no one is disagreeing with the idea UA screwed up big time here. |
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I haven't gone through the thread so I apologize if these have already been used:
Did you hear the news? United is no longer offering Red Eye Flights, only Black Eye Flights.
OK, one more:
United Airlines - Board a Doctor, leave a Patient.
I will be appearing all week, just be glad LG doesn't allow me to post internet memes. _________________ Love, Laker Lanny |
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Well played! I love it! _________________ Love, Laker Lanny |
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BadGuy wrote: | the cheapest airlines are almost always the worst (e.g., Delta, United, etc.). not surprised at all |
Those aren't the cheapest airlines.
I know because I fly and am cheap. _________________ Love, Laker Lanny |
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ringfinger wrote: | DaMuleRules wrote: | ringfinger wrote: | DaMuleRules wrote: | ringfinger wrote: | My comment was in response to DMR's comment that United prioritized the employees over the 4 passengers. That isn't entirely accurate. |
It's 100% accurate. Their problem was not overbooking. Their problem was screwing up their personnel rotations. No amount of your semantic games changes that. |
No, it's not 100% accurate DMR. Sorry.
The choice had to be either to pull 4 people off of Flight 3411, or, prevent hundreds of people from traveling on another flight. So they didn't prioritize the employees, they prioritized the hundreds of passengers and made the decision to inconvenience 4 instead of 200. It's not like they took off passengers and replaced them with 4 employees going on vacation or something. Man, whether it is "hacking" the election, you guys sure love to overstate the truth and then call semantics when challenged. lol.
Bottom line is that it doesn't matter if they screwed up their rotations or didn't plan well. This happens ALL the time. You do know this right? People are bumped off their flights all of the time, generally without incident. I want to say around 40,000 times in 2016 this happened.
And most of the time, it happens through no fault of the person being bumped which means most of the time, it is the fault of the airline not planning properly whether due to overbooking or faulty scheduling. This is nothing new and has been going on for years and years.
The only thing that is different in this case, is that the airlines didn't spend enough time or effort trying to prevent an unnecessary situation from occurring. That's why I say the issue isn't as much a legal one, as it is a customer service one. |
This is why so many people here refrain from engaging you. Your disingenuous semantics games are pointless discussions.
The events that lead to Dao being removed from the flight had nothing to do with overbooking and was due to staffing issues - regardless of what was happening in Louisville, as several here have pointed out. Dao was NOT removed to accommodate other passengers. No amount of false rationalization is going to demonstrate otherwise and will neither deflect from nor erase that simple, obvious and core fact. |
Well, I just disagree. Theres no semantics here. The 4 employees were to support anothet flight. If there was another flight in KY, this would never have happened. Its not the employees that wanted to go there, its UA that wanted them there. Why? For that other flight. Thats why I say they prioritized that other flight, the 4 passengers were just the means to ensure that flight left as intended. If it was 4 employees going on vaca and UA prioritized them in thar case, I'd agree with that point then.
Now I agree they screwed up because a) there were other flights and b) they didnt try hard enough. I'm just disagreeing with the notion the employees were prioritized.
Regardless of the reason why, they should never have called the police. The proper thing to do would have been to try harder to work it out peacefully with 4 passengers to make room.
I mean, almost no one is disagreeing with the idea UA screwed up big time here. |
This is the last I will waste of my time in this discussion with you. United was clearly NOT prioritizing "hundreds of passengers in Kentucky". They were prioritizing their financial bottom-line. Their treatment of passengers makes it obvious that they are not about prioritizing passengers for the benefit of their clients. There were other ways to resolve their staffing issues that didn't involve forcibly removing Dao. They didn't even exhaust their compensation resources when asking the flight's passengers to volunteer to give up their seats. They chose to find the cheapest and most expedient way of solving their internal issues. The idea that United was prioritizing passengers in Kentucky doesn't pass the logic test. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
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ringfinger wrote: | DaMuleRules wrote: | ringfinger wrote: | DaMuleRules wrote: | ringfinger wrote: | My comment was in response to DMR's comment that United prioritized the employees over the 4 passengers. That isn't entirely accurate. |
It's 100% accurate. Their problem was not overbooking. Their problem was screwing up their personnel rotations. No amount of your semantic games changes that. |
No, it's not 100% accurate DMR. Sorry.
The choice had to be either to pull 4 people off of Flight 3411, or, prevent hundreds of people from traveling on another flight. So they didn't prioritize the employees, they prioritized the hundreds of passengers and made the decision to inconvenience 4 instead of 200. It's not like they took off passengers and replaced them with 4 employees going on vacation or something. Man, whether it is "hacking" the election, you guys sure love to overstate the truth and then call semantics when challenged. lol.
Bottom line is that it doesn't matter if they screwed up their rotations or didn't plan well. This happens ALL the time. You do know this right? People are bumped off their flights all of the time, generally without incident. I want to say around 40,000 times in 2016 this happened.
And most of the time, it happens through no fault of the person being bumped which means most of the time, it is the fault of the airline not planning properly whether due to overbooking or faulty scheduling. This is nothing new and has been going on for years and years.
The only thing that is different in this case, is that the airlines didn't spend enough time or effort trying to prevent an unnecessary situation from occurring. That's why I say the issue isn't as much a legal one, as it is a customer service one. |
This is why so many people here refrain from engaging you. Your disingenuous semantics games are pointless discussions.
The events that lead to Dao being removed from the flight had nothing to do with overbooking and was due to staffing issues - regardless of what was happening in Louisville, as several here have pointed out. Dao was NOT removed to accommodate other passengers. No amount of false rationalization is going to demonstrate otherwise and will neither deflect from nor erase that simple, obvious and core fact. |
Well, I just disagree. Theres no semantics here. The 4 employees were to support anothet flight. If there was another flight in KY, this would never have happened. Its not the employees that wanted to go there, its UA that wanted them there. Why? For that other flight. Thats why I say they prioritized that other flight, the 4 passengers were just the means to ensure that flight left as intended. If it was 4 employees going on vaca and UA prioritized them in thar case, I'd agree with that point then.
Now I agree they screwed up because a) there were other flights and b) they didnt try hard enough. I'm just disagreeing with the notion the employees were prioritized.
Regardless of the reason why, they should never have called the police. The proper thing to do would have been to try harder to work it out peacefully with 4 passengers to make room.
I mean, almost no one is disagreeing with the idea UA screwed up big time here. |
there wouldn't even be another flight if it weren't for those worthless passengers |
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LakerLanny wrote: | BadGuy wrote: | the cheapest airlines are almost always the worst (e.g., Delta, United, etc.). not surprised at all |
Those aren't the cheapest airlines.
I know because I fly and am cheap. |
Delta United Continental
Highest prices possible!
Look for the underlings who are growing..
We don't beat our passengers we beat the competition |
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ringfinger wrote: | I'm just disagreeing with the notion the employees were prioritized. |
The employees were prioritized. Duh. United wasn't doing it out of altruism. United was doing it for its own convenience, because it had zero concern for the convenience of its customers. |
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governator wrote: | https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-united-legally-wrong-deplane-134223391.html
From a lawyer, it touch the definition of boarding vs boarding process also |
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/100317166/
Facts from USA Today:
The 4 crew needed to go to KY for A NEXT DAY job/flights
United didn't overbook the flight
United didn't maximize $incentive to 're-accommodate' passenger
That 4 crew had other ways to get to their KY job without United resorting to 're-accommodate' the passengers
Hope it put to rest the notion that United Airlines prioritized hundreds of KY passenger over 4 passengers. It's simply $ and convenience |
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governator wrote: | governator wrote: | https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-united-legally-wrong-deplane-134223391.html
From a lawyer, it touch the definition of boarding vs boarding process also |
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/100317166/
Facts from USA Today:
The 4 crew needed to go to KY for A NEXT DAY job/flights
United didn't overbook the flight
United didn't maximize $incentive to 're-accommodate' passenger
That 4 crew had other ways to get to their KY job without United resorting to 're-accommodate' the passengers
Hope it put to rest the notion that United Airlines prioritized hundreds of KY passenger over 4 passengers. It's simply $ and convenience |
Thanks. There is only one person in the thread trying to argue the counterfactuals in this case. The rest of us are pretty clear on the facts. |
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DaMuleRules wrote: | ringfinger wrote: | Well, I just disagree. Theres no semantics here. The 4 employees were to support anothet flight. If there was another flight in KY, this would never have happened. Its not the employees that wanted to go there, its UA that wanted them there. Why? For that other flight. Thats why I say they prioritized that other flight, the 4 passengers were just the means to ensure that flight left as intended. If it was 4 employees going on vaca and UA prioritized them in thar case, I'd agree with that point then.
Now I agree they screwed up because a) there were other flights and b) they didnt try hard enough. I'm just disagreeing with the notion the employees were prioritized.
Regardless of the reason why, they should never have called the police. The proper thing to do would have been to try harder to work it out peacefully with 4 passengers to make room.
I mean, almost no one is disagreeing with the idea UA screwed up big time here. |
This is the last I will waste of my time in this discussion with you. United was clearly NOT prioritizing "hundreds of passengers in Kentucky". They were prioritizing their financial bottom-line. Their treatment of passengers makes it obvious that they are not about prioritizing passengers for the benefit of their clients. There were other ways to resolve their staffing issues that didn't involve forcibly removing Dao. They didn't even exhaust their compensation resources when asking the flight's passengers to volunteer to give up their seats. They chose to find the cheapest and most expedient way of solving their internal issues. The idea that United was prioritizing passengers in Kentucky doesn't pass the logic test. |
I agree with your point about the bottom line being the priority. I just don't agree that the reason they were prioritizing their bottom line wasn't the other flight they were trying to salvage. Because if it weren't for the other flight, then, how exactly does UA stand to profit from booting 4 paying customers for 4 non-paying employees?
I don't disagree with any of the points in here that UA had alternative options they didn't pursue. But that could easily be explained by incompetence which I believe to be the culprit.
I would only ever say UA was prioritizing the 4 employees, if it was the 4 employees' wishes that were being granted at the expense of Flight 3411 passengers. But that wasn't the case here. They didn't want to go, UA wanted them to go. UA saw an opportunity to salvage another flight in KY, at the expense of 4 passengers in Chicago, and put the blinders on to all other avenues to accomplishing that goal.
The 4 employees were just the vehicle to greater perceived profits, not the driver. |
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ChefLinda wrote: | governator wrote: | governator wrote: | https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-united-legally-wrong-deplane-134223391.html
From a lawyer, it touch the definition of boarding vs boarding process also |
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/100317166/
Facts from USA Today:
The 4 crew needed to go to KY for A NEXT DAY job/flights
United didn't overbook the flight
United didn't maximize $incentive to 're-accommodate' passenger
That 4 crew had other ways to get to their KY job without United resorting to 're-accommodate' the passengers
Hope it put to rest the notion that United Airlines prioritized hundreds of KY passenger over 4 passengers. It's simply $ and convenience |
Thanks. There is only one person in the thread trying to argue the counterfactuals in this case. The rest of us are pretty clear on the facts. |
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Aeneas Hunter wrote: | ringfinger wrote: | I'm just disagreeing with the notion the employees were prioritized. |
The employees were prioritized. Duh. United wasn't doing it out of altruism. United was doing it for its own convenience, because it had zero concern for the convenience of its customers. |
No, as I said in the post above, the employees were simply a means, not the end. The end was, as you said, greater $$ in their pockets and convenience in terms of having to spend time looking for other ways to resolve the problem. And it was that $$ and time/convenience that was prioritized over the 4 passengers. The 4 employees were simply the instrument used to try to realize that $$ and time.
Putting it another way - when a company moves their manufacturing from the U.S. to China, do we say they are prioritizing China or prioritizing $$? I think most people would probably say they are prioritizing $$. I just don't think it would make a whole lot of sense to say they were prioritizing China unless the company made the move in order to appease China's wishes. |
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lakersken80 wrote: | Airlines have every right to overbook their flights...the only thing they did wrong was the overreaction to a guy who wasn't a threat to the safety of the flight crew. Perhaps offering more incentives to the customers would've resolved this situation peacefully or if the airline realizes the costs to put those 4 airline employees were too great they could've booked them on a competitors airline to get them to the destination....either way it was a poor solution to a problem. |
this is what I really dont get and cant believe an airline would be so cheap with their incentives that nobody bites on giving up their seat. Offer $2K and a free ticket to the next available flight to that same destination. I'm sure someone would happily give up their seat and if not keep upping the ante until someone bites. _________________ (bleep) Kawhi |
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audioaxes wrote: | lakersken80 wrote: | Airlines have every right to overbook their flights...the only thing they did wrong was the overreaction to a guy who wasn't a threat to the safety of the flight crew. Perhaps offering more incentives to the customers would've resolved this situation peacefully or if the airline realizes the costs to put those 4 airline employees were too great they could've booked them on a competitors airline to get them to the destination....either way it was a poor solution to a problem. |
this is what I really dont get and cant believe an airline would be so cheap with their incentives that nobody bites on giving up their seat. Offer $2K and a free ticket to the next available flight to that same destination. I'm sure someone would happily give up their seat and if not keep upping the ante until someone bites. |
Yeah. That's exactly what they should have done. And if at some breaking point, no takers, they should have looked for alternative options.
Whether they were legally allowed to deny transport to the passenger or not, I think they should change their policy to never involuntary deny a seated passenger for reasons other than passenger/crew safety. It's just good business. |
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ringfinger wrote: | Aeneas Hunter wrote: | ringfinger wrote: | I'm just disagreeing with the notion the employees were prioritized. |
The employees were prioritized. Duh. United wasn't doing it out of altruism. United was doing it for its own convenience, because it had zero concern for the convenience of its customers. |
No, as I said in the post above, the employees were simply a means, not the end. The end was, as you said, greater $$ in their pockets and convenience in terms of having to spend time looking for other ways to resolve the problem. And it was that $$ and time/convenience that was prioritized over the 4 passengers. The 4 employees were simply the instrument used to try to realize that $$ and time.
Putting it another way - when a company moves their manufacturing from the U.S. to China, do we say they are prioritizing China or prioritizing $$? I think most people would probably say they are prioritizing $$. I just don't think it would make a whole lot of sense to say they were prioritizing China unless the company made the move in order to appease China's wishes. |
This made me laugh. Jeez, man. In your effort to deny the obvious, we're now analogizing this to foreign trade? I guess United dropped the MOASR (Mother of All Seat Reassignments) on the doctor. Sad! |
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