This should be a bipartisan issue. It should be illegal for airlines to overbook

[ColonelAngus]

Good thing United wouldn't go higher than $800 to get off the flight. It was a smart financial move. They saved money.

Good for them. I see no downside to the lawsuit brought by the doctor who was assaulted.

#ASIANMEDICALDOCTORLIVESMATTER

 

[JimBowie1958]

So you think the Chinese market is not regulated?
Do you see the problem with your logic?

The Chinese market is way over regulated.

There is a Golden Mean in there, Bripat, this is not, as Speaker Ryan would put it, a binary choice situation.

 

[JimBowie1958]

I never said "unregulated". No one is saying that. I simply said we Disney need a regulation over overbooking.
Calm your socialist mania down a few notches.

'Disney'? Wow, your word completion software made a very interesting choice there, lol.

And I am a Nordic Model Socialist which many say is not actual socialism.

Capitalists are infamous for letting people die so they can save a few bucks on operations expenses.

I am surprised you were not aware of that.

 

[danielpalos]

It should be illegal to put limits on compensation to paying passengers for inconveniences induced for bottom line purposes; if that Firm's CEO does not also have limits on their bonus.

 

[Scorpion]

Wonder if any of the other passengers are remorseful for their selfishness.
Didn't see anyone else jump up and say, Stop! I'll take a flight tomorrow!
Nope, not a one.

 

[martybegan]

The airlines are shit, run by shits, but,

if they stop overbooking then it is fair for them to sell you only non-refundable tickets.

They should sell tickets first come, first served, and when they get into overbook status, they should inform the ticket buyer that they are in line to be bumped if every person who bought tickets ahead of them shows up.

FTR: This isn't a case of overbooking.

It was the airline wanting to make 4 seats available for their own employees.

yep. This article actually makes the case for this, and makes the Dr's lawsuit that much more viable.

United Airlines Did Not Have the Legal Right to Refuse Service to the Doctor Dragged Off Its Plane

 

[Scorpion]

I'm surprised some are focusing more on his ethnicity and not even commenting on his age,69.
No matter the age, people could have undisclosed health issues that are not outrightly visible.
No one should be manhandled in that way.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Good thing United wouldn't go higher than $800 to get off the flight. It was a smart financial move. They saved money.

Good for them. I see no downside to the lawsuit brought by the doctor who was assaulted.

#ASIANMEDICALDOCTORLIVESMATTER

United's market value fell 255 million.

 

[paperview]

Wonder if any of the other passengers are remorseful for their selfishness.
Didn't see anyone else jump up and say, Stop! I'll take a flight tomorrow!
Nope, not a one.

"After dragging the man off, the four employees of the partner airline boarded. “People on the plane were letting them have it,” Bridges said.

A few minutes later, the man who was removed from the plane returned, looking dazed and saying he had to get home, Bridges said.

Officers followed him to the back of the plane. Another man traveling with high school students stood up at that point and said they were getting off, Bridges said. About half of the passengers followed before United told everyone to get off, he said.

The man who was originally dragged down the aisle was removed from the plane again, and United employees made an announcement saying they had to “tidy up” the aircraft, Bridges said.

Aviation industry expert Robert W. Mann Jr. watched the video and said he had never seen anything like it.

“I’ve never seen a passenger forcibly removed unless it involved an unruly passenger of some sort,” he said.

Officer involved in dragging man off United flight put on leave

 

[ColonelAngus]

2 people cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

United Airlines apparently is not familiar with Pauli's exclusion principle...or they think it is a fallacy, because they sell 2 tickets for the same seat.

 

[ColonelAngus]

A minority beaten, had 2 teeth knocked out, was concussed, and dragged off an airliner from a seat he paid for....UNREAL.

#ASIANMEDICALDOCTORLIVESMATTER

 

[Aries]

I have been the lucky recipient of those offers to take a later flight. I got to fly later on to Colorado on them. Let them pay for overbooking. We don't need more federal laws and regulations.

Agreed, a simple- don't assault the customers should be sufficient.

 

[ColonelAngus]

I have been the lucky recipient of those offers to take a later flight. I got to fly later on to Colorado on them. Let them pay for overbooking. We don't need more federal laws and regulations.

Agreed, a simple- don't assault the customers should be sufficient.

Aren't their FTC regulations already in place for not selling the same thing to multiple people?

Would it be OK to sell the same house to 2 different families and forcibly remove one family that paid less in order for the family that paid more to move in?

Just beat the **** out fo the first family to move in and drag them the **** out of the house they paid for......seems reasonable.....

 

[PredFan]

I never said "unregulated". No one is saying that. I simply said we Disney need a regulation over overbooking.
Calm your socialist mania down a few notches.

'Disney'? Wow, your word completion software made a very interesting choice there, lol.

And I am a Nordic Model Socialist which many say is not actual socialism.

Capitalists are infamous for letting people die so they can save a few bucks on operations expenses.

I am surprised you were not aware of that.

Crap, my phone added Disney for some reason and I didn't catch it.

You can change the name all you want to, it's still socialism. I never said no regulations, I said we didn't need a new regulation for this. Let the free market take care of it, it's already doing that without another government regulation.

Capitalism hasn't killed anyone and you are unable to prove it has.

Stick to the topic and dial your socialist mania down a notch or two.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Crap, my phone added Disney for some reason and I didn't catch it.

Lol, doncha just hate that?

You can change the name all you want to, it's still socialism. I never said no regulations, I said we didn't need a new regulation for this. Let the free market take care of it, it's already doing that without another government regulation.

Well, many people argue that Nordic Model Socialism is not socialism but just a different kind of capitalism with a heavy does of regulation.

All I know is that the net PP incomes of people in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland is better than the individual income of the USA.

Capitalism hasn't killed anyone and you are unable to prove it has.

But capitalists have within the capitalist system. You are arguing that the idea is clean, but the people guilty, similar to claims made by communist that no past communist government was 'real' communism.

Stick to the topic and dial your socialist mania down a notch or two.

No mania here, friend, but merely speaking the Truth as I comprehend it.

 

[PredFan]

Crap, my phone added Disney for some reason and I didn't catch it.

Lol, doncha just hate that?

You can change the name all you want to, it's still socialism. I never said no regulations, I said we didn't need a new regulation for this. Let the free market take care of it, it's already doing that without another government regulation.

Well, many people argue that Nordic Model Socialism is not socialism but just a different kind of capitalism with a heavy does of regulation.

All I know is that the net PP incomes of people in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland is better than the individual income of the USA.

Capitalism hasn't killed anyone and you are unable to prove it has.

But capitalists have within the capitalist system. You are arguing that the idea is clean, but the people guilty, similar to claims made by communist that no past communist government was 'real' communism.

Stick to the topic and dial your socialist mania down a notch or two.

No mania here, friend, but merely speaking the Truth as I comprehend it.

That's fine but you and others imply that capitalism kills people and it does not. I guess a totally un-regulated free-market would allow abuses but in this day and age, with all the lawyers we have now? Not a chance.

Again, no one is talking about a totally unregulated free market.

 

[PredFan]

United Airlines, putting the "Hospital" back in hospitality!

 

[JimBowie1958]

That's fine but you and others imply that capitalism kills people and it does not. I guess a totally un-regulated free-market would allow abuses but in this day and age, with all the lawyers we have now? Not a chance.

And yet it happens. Companies have sold bad products that kill people, thinking that they can get away with various unhealthy practices.

We need government oversight of capitalism to make sure that the capitalists dont sell us substandard food, snake oil and death traps.

And that they will get sued for killing scores of people is not OK. That is trying to recompense unjustifiable loss, not a working ideal.

 

[Tresha91203]

If you pay for the service, you should get the service.

One should not have to get off an airplane because the AIRLINE sold your seat twice.

UTTER NONSENSE!

THE GUY SHOULD HAVE LEFT PEACEFULLY, but overbooking is bullshit.

United is Asiaphobic.

United Struggles to Extinguish Social Media Firestorm

Video shows man getting dragged off overbooked United flight

I don't think it should be illegal, but I think passengers should have the right to sue if they get bumped. This regulation that says they can't is just plain unjust and insane.

Non bumpable tickets are available for a higher price. Consumers choose the lower fare and risk the possibility of being bumped. Non-bumpable flights are expensive. If you remove low fare bumpable flights, ALL flights become expensive. I prefer the choice between cheap-but-bumpable and expensive-but-not-bumpable. Why would you remove the option?

That being said, the beating was uncalled for. United should have kept upping the offer until someone accepted.

 

[danielpalos]

Wonder if any of the other passengers are remorseful for their selfishness.
Didn't see anyone else jump up and say, Stop! I'll take a flight tomorrow!
Nope, not a one.

Why should they; those customers were right, at the time they purchased their tickets.

It is up to the airlines to resort to capitalism, like true capitalists, and simply "buy out" the passenger interest in those customers willing to "liquidate their position on that flight".