United volunteers to kick people off plane

Sounds like the crew (stewardess at least) had an ego problem and decided to go on a power trip.

 

A PR expert with the correct response for United (not necessarily the CEO resigning, but the steps leading up to it):

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/11/it-m...e-accommodate-ceo-oscar-munoz-commentary.html

 

If theyre gonna go that route then you cancel the flight in Louisville and let the timed out crew rest. You can't make 60+ passengers wait 5 hours for a crew to drive in.

 

you mean manager, from reading that reddit thread, he said the other employees were baffled at what was happening and the manager was the one demanding people off

 

And that justifies him being dragged off a plane unconscious because...?

 

Oh they are not done, wait until they see the backlash from countries like China.

 

Probably goes back to earlier thoughts about a compulsion to not being proven wrong...

 

he lied about being from china, he is vietnamese.

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39562288

 

Regardless of the specifics of this incident, it seems clear that there is something wrong with the policy. In this case, United stopped upping the compensation at either $800 or $1000...perhaps someone would have taken it if they were (a) offering cash--I'm not sure about it in this case--and (b) went up to the MAX of $1350.

But if no one wanted $1350 in cash? We're right back at this incident. It's crazy that airlines are simultaneously allowed to (1) overbook knowingly (albeit partially an issue because of legacy systems interacting together), (2) are capped by law in how much they can offer, and (3) can then boot people involuntarily. It seems like such a simple fix to either eliminate (1), or otherwise kill (2) and (3). But if they allow these things together, this lose-lose situation is bound to happen again.

Source on the 1350 cap: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/250.5

 

your earlier thought was the airline "leaked" a well known story lol

 

There are quite a lot of Chinese living in Vietnam that adopt Vietnamese names to blend in. Try again.

 

what? lmao he lives in kentucky and is vietnamese.

 

You and me both, I'd have done it for $500 and an already paid one-way rental car.

 

He's a felon who got a slap on the wrist, maybe he felt he was above the law. Again, United did not drag him off the plane ... security did.

 

Deflection.

 

Not that it matters if he is real Chinese or not.

This is the #1 trending topic in weibo, United does a lot of business in China these days.

 

Right? United let a couple planes be hijaked if we're playing the "let's bring up facts that have absolutely nothing to do with this case" game.

 

Deflection.