God fucking dammit, GAF.
We really have defense forces for everything.
Also, you should probably look up the definition of entitlement. I'd say that paying for a seat and expecting to get that seat fit the definition to a tee.
When it got to the point where security is there to remove you and they give you your last chance to do so voluntarily.. and you don't..then your wrong. He made a shitty situation as worse as it could be for everyone on that flight that got delayed due to his sense of entitlement. It sucks to get bounced but he escalated to the point of force ably being removed.
How dare he expect to keep the seat on the flight he paid for. How dare he!
ya its a shitty business practice that should be outlawed. however when security says you have to leave the plane or they will move you and you refuse..you crossed the line.
This kind of responses blow my mind. So airlines lobby lawmakers. Lawmakers create laws that are amoral and unethical and abuse consumers. But because it's law, you are "entitled" if you fucking say no.
You don't get to refused to follow the commands of the flight crew and security.. period.
Its a plane not a public space.
This isn't a unique practice to United all North American Airlines do this.
level of entitlement?
he bought a ticket so he could go home and help out sick and dying people and the people he bought the ticket from said fuck off we gotta get ours.
come ON
Yes he was suppose to get off the plain accept the credit and take the next available flight like any other non entitled civilized human being would.
Are you serious with this shit?
United fucked by up:
Allowing an overbooked flight to be boarded. I've never seen this before because it's meant to be sorted out before anyone gets on.
Not raising the offered price higher to incentivize people get off.
Kicking a paying customer off for a fucking staff member.
Getting police to drag him off by force without doing anything.
A non-apology statement.
If THEY fucked up then THEY should deal with it without effecting paying customers. Put the staff on another airline if they have to. This will create a PR nightmare and will cost them more than $800 that's for sure. Disgusting treatment of customers, incompetently managed, and pathetically dealt with. The staff who caused this should be fired.
yes i'm serious
united did what all airlines do
the situation was unfortunate that the plane was boarded before they knew a company crew needed to get on the flight. obviously if they could have done this at the gate it would have been better.
they're only authorized to offer so much. I like the idea it should keep going up till someone bites.
they weren't kicked off for someone who just worked for united it was a crew to had to get there to keep another whole flight from being delayed/canceled. Its unfortunate but it was a requirement.
The doctor forced the security to remove him..they gave him at least 3 chances..the ugliness of what ensued was purely of his choosing. He forced them to do it.
Same thing happened on Air Canada but no one refused to leave and forced security to remove them. Doctor simply felt he was more important.. and Again I say if it was life threatening that he was on that flight he could have provided a number to verify it was an emergency.. obviously it wasn't he just didn't want to be delayed.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-bumping-overbooking-airline-1.4060820
