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>The only person who should go to jail is the person who thought he was so much more important than everyone else on his plane that he was the only one who refu
by frgtpsswrdlame 10y ago
>The only person who should go to jail is the person who thought he was so much more important than everyone else on his plane that he was the only one who refused to leave when asked, legally, by a police officer. Not only did he think he was more important than everyone on HIS plane, he thought he was more important than the people on the plane that was going to get cancelled because it didn't have a flight crew. Running back onto a plane, screaming, after being removed by law enforcement is a crime. He should go to jail.
This is such a crazy level of corporate apology that it's got to be sarcastic. United was not in the right to remove him. He stood up to that. If United really wanted to make room they should go for the market-based solution of just continuing to increase the price they were willing to pay for you to vacate your seat.
- slapshot 10y ago[Deleted]
- orf 10y agoScreaming and bleeding, don't forget. You didn't answer his comment though, why didn't they offer more money? Where is your compassion?
- wfunction 10y agoAnd did they offer cash, or just a voucher?
- connorcpu 10y agoThey were offering $800 worth of vouchers, but it's multiple vouchers where you can only use 1 at a time and they expire in a year.
- wfunction 10y agoGod... vouchers are useless unless you travel and want to do it with United. If they really care to avoid messing up their image they need to give cash...
- frgtpsswrdlame 10y ago>but REQUIRES that United do so. It doesn't require that United call police to remove someone after they hit some arbitrary price limit. >He didn't "stand up" -- he ran back onto a flight, screaming, after he didn't get his way. Sorry, but he needs to go to jail for disrupting his flight and the flight downstream that didn't have a flight crew because of his antics. Good. He should inflict as much pain on the corporate beauracracy as possible. He should make everyone involved in this situation pissed off and then he should remind them that this is United's fuckup, not his. I also hope he takes as many millions as he can get out of United's pocketbook, especially considering their CEO's immediate response.
- arnarbi 10y agoCan you link to that regulation?
- samfisher83 10y agoThey could have just booked their crew on a different flight.
- slapshot 10y agoEditing people's quotes is not cool. Please stop.
- tyingq 10y agoOn this: "Running back onto a plane, screaming, after being removed by law enforcement is a crime." Probably worth noting that people with concussions, that just went through something fairly traumatic, may do odd things.
- danderino 10y agoKicking someone off was the right decision if it meant another flight was cancelled/delayed. United didn't do anything criminal by asking him to leave. This is in fact the opinion of the article were supposedly discussing. >To be clear, the fact that United seems to have breached its contract with Dao doesn’t mean its action was illegal, as the headline of this otherwise helpful article by a nonlawyer on a frequent traveler website suggests. There’s nothing illegal about breaching a contract. If you do so, you simply have to pay damages. Dao’s lawyer, Thomas Demetrio, said Thursday that he is investigating possible claims against United. >And once United in effect told Dao that it was breaching its contract with him and told him to get off, he was probably under a legal duty to comply. He should have left and contested the charges as a civil case.