tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27654025.post2166943074310100987..comments2024-03-07T03:25:23.835-08:00Comments on Political Pistachio: United Airlines Innocent, Flyer and Security Not So MuchDouglas V. Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09388639848567082980noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27654025.post-22786888685252450602017-04-14T08:48:54.704-07:002017-04-14T08:48:54.704-07:00I hope the passenger gets the company after he win...I hope the passenger gets the company after he wins HUGE in court.reverendkenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09961318994584417886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27654025.post-66966343245368182182017-04-13T01:30:03.958-07:002017-04-13T01:30:03.958-07:00I think I disagree with you on this one Mr. Gibbs....I think I disagree with you on this one Mr. Gibbs. United had other choices all along the line. <br /><br />The problem was that they had four employees who needed to get to Louisville at the last minute or another of their flights would have to be cancelled for lack of that crew. That is why the passengers were already boarded before being bumped. Three passengers accepted the offer calmly and got perks for their inconvenience and that was their choice. <br /><br />My problem comes with the idea that, having paid for his ticket and having been boarded - all with no problem and in compliance with his end of the contract, now United's choices allow this law abiding passenger to have hands laid on him and be assaulted. For what? For expecting United to hold up their end of the ticket contract? <br /><br />Yes, he should have behaved better once the problem became apparent, but so should United. They could have offered more money until another passenger agreed to be bumped. They could have sent their employees on another flight - even buying seats on a competing airline if need be and avoided having one of their passengers assaulted. But did they? No. They chose instead to bring in a security guard who then proceeded to assault a paying customer.<br /><br />I mean, if I ran a glass bottomed boat service and had the same sort of thing happen, would I have the right to shove a paying passenger who had done nothing wrong, overboard? I know it isn't the same thing and that there are laws governing this practice of overbooking, but it looks like United may not have followed the law in this procedure either. <br /><br />Somehow "Hey come and fly on my plane, but if I decide you are inconvenient for me on that day, I'll beat you up and throw you off" doesn't seem like a good business model. <br /><br />But, I suppose, since I don't plan to fly anywhere until the TSA is abolished, it falls into the category of not my monkeys, not my zoo. Except that it touches on the subject of individual rights. The idea that someone who is doing the company good (by being a paying customer) can then be assaulted for something that is the company's fault just doesn't sit right with me. Call Me Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17420259973871484926noreply@blogger.com