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<blockquote data-quote="achromaticmike" data-source="post: 1086764" data-attributes="member: 4885">This is 100% United's fuckup.- Wrong.&nbsp; It's not his plane and he was told to get off.&quot;The police will of course come drag you away if the captain says you have to get off the plane.&quot;- Which is almost exactly what happened.&quot;This isn't a government abuse. United seriously screwed the pooch on this one and if I were corporate management, I would be furious with the crew about this PR nightmare.United overbooked that flight and then demanded that people get off the plane. Those passengers paid their fares and have every reasonable expectation that their transit on that flight will be honored. Some people very well do NEED to be at their destinations. That's why they're flying is because they need to be somewhere. Not everyone is flying for vacation.&quot;- Then those people should probably read the fucking contract and book a ticket in a higher fare class of which United has about 20 to avoid being bumped.&quot;I agree with the above posters that United should have kept increasing the monetary incentives until someone accepted. Overbooking, letting the passenger board the plane, and then having the police come drag someone off by force? United deserves a bloodier nose for this one than that doctor received.&quot;- Ya absolutely.&nbsp; United should offer thousands, hell, millions for a Chicago - Louisville ticket that the guy probably paid $200 for considering he was the lowest fare class and bumped instead of them just following the clear terms of the contract of carriage and actual US law.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="achromaticmike, post: 1086764, member: 4885"] This is 100% United's fuckup. [b]- Wrong. It's not his plane and he was told to get off.[/b] "The police will of course come drag you away if the captain says you have to get off the plane." [b]- Which is almost exactly what happened.[/b] "This isn't a government abuse. United seriously screwed the pooch on this one and if I were corporate management, I would be furious with the crew about this PR nightmare. United overbooked that flight and then demanded that people get off the plane. Those passengers paid their fares and have every reasonable expectation that their transit on that flight will be honored. Some people very well do NEED to be at their destinations. That's why they're flying is because they need to be somewhere. Not everyone is flying for vacation." [b]- Then those people should probably read the fucking contract and book a ticket in a higher fare class of which United has about 20 to avoid being bumped.[/b] "I agree with the above posters that United should have kept increasing the monetary incentives until someone accepted. Overbooking, [u]letting the passenger board the plane[/u], and then having the police come drag someone off by force? United deserves a bloodier nose for this one than that doctor received." [b]- Ya absolutely. United should offer thousands, hell, millions for a Chicago - Louisville ticket that the guy probably paid $200 for considering he was the lowest fare class and bumped instead of them just following the clear terms of the contract of carriage and actual US law.[/b] [/QUOTE]

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