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Nobody is happy to be denied boarding because of overbooking but being dragged out from the seat you paid for just to accommodate late minute UA employees is extreme.
I expect the change to be that airlines solve the overbooking before boarding.
This could mark a cultural turning point in the post 9/11 idea that any measures taken under the pretext of airline security are justified.
For any frequent travelers, I think one of the issue is the lack of consistency of airport airline rules. For example, sometimes, they throw out your perfume, sometimes, they don't. Lack of consistency can cause your customers to distrust your business.
I follow Brad Paisley on FB. He sends a simple message out yesterday. "We don't overbook concerts and they shouldn't overbook airplanes" LOL!
Yes-Jimmy Kimmel mentioned that. "If they can sell thousands and thousands of seats for concerts/shows and games, and never sell the same one twice-how is it so hard for airlines to do so?"
It is just pure greed-absolutely no excuse for it, especially when they charge cancellation/rescheduling fees.
I follow Brad Paisley on FB. He sends a simple message out yesterday. "We don't overbook concerts and they shouldn't overbook airplanes" LOL!
Oh I don't know. Ever pay hundreds of dollars for a second row seat and find out they added two rows in front of you? And, nothing you can do about it. It's in the fine print, seats may be arranged differently. Ticketmaster's practices should be illegal, yet shows are still often sold out. First world problems - air travel and attending concerts, what to do.
I once got thrown out of the pool at a hotel I was staying at because it seems they rented the pool area to some private party. Not happy but I did not act like a baby and make a scene, took it up with management later.
In most cases, I don't have much of a choice. My nearest airport is a United hub. The only other option I would have would be to fight NYC traffic to go to one of the other 2 area airports. Flying is inconvenient enough, without having to add more inconveniences to it.
Well, that's another thing. Many people are in your same boat - there are few, if any, other options.
That's what we get when we allow the airlines to all merge and the subsequent result is that there is NO competition and you are stuck flying an airline you may not like.
I never agree with this huge mergers and this is why.
I see more government regulation into the airline industry because they have quashed any competition.
I don't know. Ask the Congressmen who are currently looking into it. As well as Chris Christie who is also stuck with UA being a 'hub" in his city and currently clamoring for an investigation.
Of course, we know that the airlines lobby Congress for favorable rulings by paying them off - like all other big business.
People are fed up with airlines in general and UA just took this to a tipping point.
And . .. you can't have NO competition and NO regulation. Airlines need to pick one or the other.
No one will hospitalize him unless there is a medical indication to do so. His lawsuit does not need for anyone to do that.
No, the lawsuit doesn't need that, but it becomes more valuable the longer he is hospitalized.
I'm quite sure a doctor and/or his doctor wife can come up with plausible symptoms/complaints to convince another doctor to keep them hospitalized. If for no other reason, erring on the side of caution.
I don't know. Ask the Congressmen who are currently looking into it.
I doubt their answer would have any reasonable expectation of success.
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Of course, we know that the airlines lobby Congress for favorable rulings by paying them off - like all other big business.
Bingo.
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People are fed up with airlines in general and UA just took this to a tipping point.
Which was said about Delta last December, and in 2012 and in 2008, and so on with other airlines always taking the inhumanity of air travel to "a tipping point". It's been said so often and been wrong so often that it isn't worth giving credence.
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