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Exactly! United overbooked as an optimization for profits, fine. However, they should have to pay up when it backfires. They gave up at $800 and just started fo

by scosman 10y ago

Exactly! United overbooked as an optimization for profits, fine. However, they should have to pay up when it backfires. They gave up at $800 and just started forcing people off. If it's free market when I'm buying my ticket, it should be free market for United buying it back.

cm2187 10y ago
It's even worse than that. They were disembarking passengers to make room for their own staff who were not even planned on this trip.
- valuearb 10y ago
  You understand their staff needed to be on this flight so that another plane full of passengers in Louisville wouldn't be delayed by not having a flight crew?
  - splawn 10y ago
    Oh well! Then sure!! Its time to start knocking customers out with your hired goons then./s
  - scosman 10y ago
    Everyone gets that. We're mad that United messed up the logistics of having staff in the right cities, and instead of treating their customers well they decided to use literal force to removed a customer with a confirmed seat who was already boarded. They had better alternatives: other customers had offered to leave for higher voucher value, I'm sure they could have paid someone already in Louisville 4x overtime. Instead they chose force and intimidation.
  - jehoshaphat 10y ago
    At least they weren't on the fucking plane already. It was a next morning flight, plenty of time to wave off the customers affected by United's own fuckup. This is why we need to re-regulate the airlines.
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  - yongjik 10y ago
    > He is allegedly a doctor, not a demigod. Someone else can cover his shift. - You, elsewhere in this thread So you're saying, unlike doctors, flight staff are demigods and must be given priority because they are irreplaceable? (The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure United will view their flight crew more as cogs than demigods.)
nraynaud 10y ago
It looks like it's not an overbooking at all, they just had employees showing up after the plane was full and united decided to kick some passenger out for them. But those employees were not paying nor were they planned to come on board before.

by scosman 10y ago

cm2187 10y ago

It's even worse than that. They were disembarking passengers to make room for their own staff who were not even planned on this trip.

valuearb 10y ago
You understand their staff needed to be on this flight so that another plane full of passengers in Louisville wouldn't be delayed by not having a flight crew?
- splawn 10y ago
  Oh well! Then sure!! Its time to start knocking customers out with your hired goons then./s
- scosman 10y ago
  Everyone gets that. We're mad that United messed up the logistics of having staff in the right cities, and instead of treating their customers well they decided to use literal force to removed a customer with a confirmed seat who was already boarded. They had better alternatives: other customers had offered to leave for higher voucher value, I'm sure they could have paid someone already in Louisville 4x overtime. Instead they chose force and intimidation.
- jehoshaphat 10y ago
  At least they weren't on the fucking plane already. It was a next morning flight, plenty of time to wave off the customers affected by United's own fuckup. This is why we need to re-regulate the airlines.
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- yongjik 10y ago
  > He is allegedly a doctor, not a demigod. Someone else can cover his shift. - You, elsewhere in this thread So you're saying, unlike doctors, flight staff are demigods and must be given priority because they are irreplaceable? (The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure United will view their flight crew more as cogs than demigods.)

nraynaud 10y ago

It looks like it's not an overbooking at all, they just had employees showing up after the plane was full and united decided to kick some passenger out for them. But those employees were not paying nor were they planned to come on board before.