Which is exactly why they fish for volunteers first.Quote:
Originally Posted by brutal
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Which is exactly why they fish for volunteers first.Quote:
Originally Posted by brutal
Unlikely, not relevant to the action at hand if he had a clean bill of health so to speak. United will not likely be able to use it.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrPrena
Doubt this one will see the light of day in court.
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Originally Posted by brutal
Another article
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/united...173844672.html
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This was United’s real mistake
Rick Newman
Columnist
Yahoo Finance April 11, 2017
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Will a viral video sink United Airlines?
Was United legally justified when it forcibly dragged a paying passenger off a plane in Chicago on April 9? The airline seems to think so, but it may come down to whether the company complied with government rules on what airlines must do when passengers are involuntarily bumped.
The Transportation Department says airlines must “give all passengers who are bumped involuntarily a written statement describing their rights and explaining how the carrier decides who gets on an oversold flight and who doesn’t.” There’s no evidence United did that. In an internal email published by the Associated Press, United CEO Oscar Munoz said company employees “followed our involuntary denial of boarding process (including offering up to $1,000 in compensation).” But he didn’t say whether those employees followed government rules, including issuing the written statement and giving an explanation for why a given passenger was singled out for bumping.
United’s Rule 25
Rule 25 of United’s “contract of carriage”—which is basically the legal fine print governing passenger flights—contains detailed procedures for how to handle overbooked flights on which passengers need to be bumped, either voluntarily or involuntarily. But there’s no mention of a written statement or an explanation offered to passengers who are bumped against their will. So unless there are other United procedures that aren’t public, the carrier’s official policy seems to exclude what the government requires.
Passenger David Dao was dragged off an overbooked United Airlines flight.
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There’s another wrinkle. Rule 25 deals almost entirely with passengers denied boarding—in other words, people who never get on a plane. But in the Chicago incident, the passenger had already boarded when United employees told him he had to get off. Again, unless United has an unpublished policy dealing with this scenario, it’s not addressed in the contract of carriage. So even if United followed its own procedures, it would have violated government rules.
The whole incident seems to have arisen from an unusual situation unanticipated by the airline. United says the flight was already fully boarded when four crew members approached the gate, saying they needed to board the plane to get to Louisville, where the flight was headed, or else a subsequent United departure out of Louisville would have to be canceled. So United made the probably rational decision that it was cheaper to bump four passengers and pay them for their troubles, than to leave the crew members in Chicago and cancel a Louisville departure.
Where it went wrong
This is where the whole thing went wrong. Three passengers chosen by United—how, remains unclear—apparently accepted the airline’s offer and got off the plane. But the fourth passenger United selected didn’t agree to get off, which led to the forced ejection captured on video and now seen by hundreds of millions worldwide.
United says it offered “up to $1,000” to coax the four passengers off the plane peacefully. Obviously it didn’t offer enough. Fliers everywhere wonder why United didn’t just keep raising its offer until somebody raised their hand. United hasn’t said why, but it may have had something to do with the flight running late and crew members feeling rushed. Still, summoning security in a situation that could have been defused peacefully for a few extra bucks, will surely go down as one of the most obtuse corporate decisions in years.
Bad publicity following the incident has pushed the company’s stock price down a couple percentage points and shaved more than $500 million off the carrier’s market value. Lawsuits seem certain, as well. The whole thing might blow over, if Munoz, who initially called the bumped passenger “disruptive and belligerent,” can muster a heartfelt apology and do something to act like he cares about customers. The lesson for now, however, is don’t ever do something this stupid in your own business.
$1000? That sounds like a rental car, gas, a hotel and a new glock if you ask me.
No cash, just a stinking, time-limited (and mostly useless to some people) voucher...Quote:
Originally Posted by Scanker19
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Who else caught this?
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The Louisville Courier-Journal and other news organizations reported Monday that Dao had previously been convicted of six felonies related to his medical practice in 2004, in which he was accused of illegally prescribing painkillers to a patient in exchange for sex.
Maybe the real issue was that United Airlines didn't offer him his preferred form of "compensation" in exchange for being bumped. ;)
I have had this situation several times, and each time the last minute one-way car rental was most if not all of that $1000. Once it was under $400 for a half day, one-way use. It is usually a "cool I can take my wife somewhere later this year, but I will be sitting here in this airport until tomorrow" situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scanker19