A law which was one sided.. This passenger may have booked the flight well in advance with proper planning, payed the airline in full, then how come he may be the random person to be picked up? What is the logic here? And when he resist, he is breaking the law!!! What absurd logic is that?
you are just parroting the law without realizing that you are becoming part of the insane procedure which lead to this blunder by United. Airlines need to change their priorities. When customer is the king, they should be given the privilege over the free travellers. You can have priorities based on the seat class which is fine, but all the paid customers should have priorities over crew etc. It is the airline who did the mis-calcuation by overbooking, then it should be airline who should be disembarking its holiday going crew first rather the customer.
I am seeing UNITED getting into a major lawsuit with hefty compensation paying to this customer because of their inhuman behavior.
Have you work in aviation industry?
The prospect is always safety come first, you know if the pilot is feeling unwell before a flight, a WHOLE flight can get cancel if there are no available pilot available, whether or not the pilot is actually sick, all they have to do is say "I am unwell, I need to off the clock" and under ICAO rules, he/she cannot be on the pilot seat just because he said so.
Now, I am not talking about safety to passenger on that particular aircraft. The need to have a replacement crew, whether or not the request is actually suit the need, IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN PASSENGER RIGHT. Because at the other end, people dies if the crew were not deliver on time.
So the question now is, how you balance the safety of other passenger and YOU. While everyone would most certainly think I am above all, I would have to take care of myself first, so why I am required to leave so 4 crew can board a flight in my place when I have planned all the vacation for months or maybe years.
The problem is what you think or who you are,
DOES NOT MATTER. WHAT MATTER IS THE PASSENGER SAFETY IN GENERAL. That law is designed to protect the safety quality of passenger,
ALL PASSENGER, not just you. Think about it like this,
you are on the flight that needed that 4 crew, you want to get home for whatever business, now someone tell you some Doctor is not giving up his seat so the replacement crew cannot be here, and they will have to cancel that flight, now you tell me what would you think?
Or worst, because that doctor did not give up his seat, we decided to fly you home in a tired crew. What would you think?
From eye-witness on the flight board, the authority did not just drag him but physically punch him on the face as showed with his face injury. This is an assault and they mess with the fucking wrong person as he is a DOCTOR. LOL
So? I never said the Authority did not go heavy hand on him, in fact, I would suggest the doctor to try and have a litigation to the authority.
The argument I made is that United have no choice on this. I am defending the action by United Airline, not the local LEA.
Who problem was that of overflying of the crew? Who prepared their roaster? It is the problem of the airline only.
Who's fault is to blame for dropping 12 inch of snow that aircraft needed to deice 7 times before flight. Or Who's fault is that because of the turbulence, the aircraft have to diverted?
There are millions reason a flight got delay or cancelled. Are they all airlines fault? Bear in mind this happen when US was covered with Extreme Weather. Delay and Cancellation is quite common for extreme weather, and
whose fault is it that US East Coast is covered with Extreme Weather?
Slowly and slowly you are coming up to the point of accepting that it is the fault of the pilot who was representing United, which is good.
Rather than using the force, the airline should have come to better negotiation terms. The united airlines screwed it up big time. This is causing major embarrassment for them world over.
No, the United did nothing wrong, it have the right to expel the passenger to fly its own crew in.
Again, what will you think if you are on the other side of the country
WAITING ON THAT FLIGHT TO BRING YOU THE RELIEF CREW SO YOU CAN GO HOME? AND THEN SOMEONE TELL YOU THEY AREN"T COMING BECAUSE SOME DOCTOR REFUSED TO GIVE UP HIS SEAT TO THE CREW THAT GONNA FLY YOU HOME?
