• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    United was booting passengers to make room for employee transfers though, the situation was shit before dept of aviation even got the call.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Those employees could have stood. Frontier and Spirit give vouchers out when they intentionally overbook…which before the pandemic was everyday. If nobody takes the bait, they up the voucher value. For them it’s essentially monopoly money.

      If United couldn’t get anybody to bite at the vouchers, then the employees should have stood the whole flight. Instead, they beat a man who was not fighting back physically. He only insisted that he get to his patient. They LITERALLY dragged him off the plane. By his ankle, as he tried to grab onto anything he could.

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        5 months ago

        If United couldn’t get anybody to bite at the vouchers, then the employees should have stood the whole flight.

        Yeah, that is not a solution. The FAA is salivating at the thought of this. Everyone must have a seat for takeoff and landing.

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      5 months ago

      Sure, but telling someone to leave their plane for some oddball reason is “only bad” not outright crazy like what happened then.