United Airlines carnage

[Marky147]

Think they're going to be dishing out a fair bit of compo for that.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aliciamelvillesmith/a-man-was-dragged-off-united-plane-after-the-airline?utm_term=.sfw93KY9zq#.qy8J6zQJvo

[Woodsey]

Ridiculous, they usually just offer money/vouchers and the price goes up until someone accepts....

[arbboy]

Ridiculous, they usually just offer money/vouchers and the price goes up until someone accepts....

+1  I got offered £850 cash to jump off a vegas flight in 2011 and a first class seat on the same flight tomorrow with an overnight stay at the hilton to sweeten it.  I couldn't get off quick enough incase someone else jumped off before me.  I find it amazing a firm this big globally operated this heavy handed for such tiny financial gain.  Must be a wind up surely?  The negative PR must be worth £100k+ to them long term.  Makes no sense at all.  Where do they get the bouncers from at the airport to just drag people off the plane in this style?

[Woodsey]

Ridiculous, they usually just offer money/vouchers and the price goes up until someone accepts....

+1  I got offered £850 cash to jump off a vegas flight in 2011 and a first class seat on the same flight tomorrow with an overnight stay at the hilton to sweeten it.  I couldn't get off quick enough incase someone else jumped off before me.  I find it amazing a firm this big globally operated this heavy handed.  Must be a wind up surely?

Only once got offered when I could accept and didn't have to be somewhere, was a similar amount to you and was gutted when they didn't pick me!

[exstream]

Supposedly offered everyone $800 but nobody would move so they 'randomly picked' people, including this doctor who had patients he needed to get back to and therefore didn't want to go. So they knocked him out

[arbboy]

Supposedly offered everyone $800 but nobody would move so they 'randomly picked' people, including this doctor who had patients he needed to get back to and therefore didn't want to go. So they knocked him out

Where do the heavies come from at the airport to 'knock people out'? Are they just sitting waiting somewhere to perform this duty?

[exstream]

They rang the police or something to escort people off
Can't remember what I read
It's all over Reddit front page

[Marky147]

Arsenal are looking at getting these boys in to remove Wenger  

[arbboy]

haha

[arbboy]

in all seriousness do they do a random draw in public to evict punters? 

[DaveShoelace]

If it was RyanAir they would have charged to drag him.

[exstream]

Randomly picked people on their computer
Will be whoever paid the least for their flights

[hhyftrftdr]

Surprised there was only 2 takers (they had oversold by 4 seats apparently) for the $800 and a night in a hotel. Obv there would have been plenty of people onboard with commitments of a varying nature that meant they needed that flight, but on a plane full of people you'd assume at least a further 2 people would be content enough to skip the flight and pocket the cash, especially as it was a domestic sector within the States.

[Woodsey]

Surprised there was only 2 takers (they had oversold by 4 seats apparently) for the $800 and a night in a hotel. Obv there would have been plenty of people onboard with commitments of a varying nature that meant they needed that flight, but on a plane full of people you'd assume at least a further 2 people would be content enough to skip the flight and pocket the cash, especially as it was a domestic sector within the States.

Couple of grand max extra out of their pockets v PR nightmare, I can't believe someone ordered them to remove the people, their job is gone first thing tomorrow...

[arbboy]

Randomly picked people on their computer
Will be whoever paid the least for their flights

Is that seriously how they work it?  Budget boys get booted first?  Makes sense from a business angle.  You wouldn't want to boot a guy who had just paid top dollar 6 hours before the flight to fly last minute.  Still incredibly harsh PR wise.  Surely you just up the ante with bribes until someone bites to get off and avoid the bad PR?  How often does this style of 'boot off' happen?  Surely never happens otherwise it would be on SM all the time right?

Why don't they just operate a policy of the last 2 to check in get booted off?  Would speed up the take off process if people knew this.  Last minute check in types wouldn't be getting pissed so often in the bar if this was the policy.