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So this is unexpected. Apparently China represents 20% of United's business and they have not taken this incident well at all. It has been viewed in China 200 million times already.
The situation could have been handled creatively by the Pilot by following another United Pilot's lead from a few months ago and there would have been plenty of seats available....
But, seriously, I don't want to fly with my fellow lunatic Americans either, so I probably would have volunteered to get off once I saw the doc acting like a lunatic.
You'd be surprised how you pay when you demand entitled treatment lol.
So not being dragged off a flight is an entitled treatment now... This flight wasn't an overbooked messed but rather it was due to people needing to be in Louisville and using a full flight to transport them AFTER the people boarded. I've flown several times with several different airlines and even on United flights they would work to fix overbooked flights WAY before boarding.
I have a lot of questions about this. Mainly with the law enforcement. Did they do their job? Was there excessive force? What made the man think he was more superior than the other 3 that were also chosen to lose seats? They all humbly got up, but this guy was special. Who made the call to have law officers come on the plane? Once the man saw law enforcement come on the plane why did he think he had the power to refuse them? Things I am very curious about.
I am also puzzling over this. I read the passenger left the plane voluntarily, then ran back on board. How did it get to the point where he was physically dragged off the plane? I think if an official told me if I didn't leave, then I would be dragged off the plane, I would have gotten off, and then taken it further afterwards.
The image of a grown man, a doctor for gawds sake, taking it to this point of physical dragging, because he wouldn't leave as instructed, I find quite bizarre.
So this is unexpected. Apparently China represents 20% of United's business and they have not taken this incident well at all. It has been viewed in China 200 million times already.
Wow. This is literally their ground zero. As if losing nearly a billion dollars in stock value wasn't bad enough lol. I wonder what are the odds they'll have similar overbooking incidents after this, or further PR disasters.
Wow. This is literally their ground zero. As if losing nearly a billion dollars in stock value wasn't bad enough lol. I wonder what are the odds they'll have similar overbooking incidents after this, or further PR disasters.
Americans have the memory of a fruit fly. In 2 weeks, the stock price will be back to normal, and most people will have forgotten which airline it was that through the brigand off the plane.
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The situation could have been handled creatively by the Pilot by following another United Pilot's lead from a few months ago and there would have been plenty of seats available....
