Thread: United Airlines Passenger Dragged Off Plane

Originally Posted by Xtreme4Life

Yea, I honestly think both sides fucked up. Overbooking is an extremely common scenario. It happens. It sucks when it happens to you, but they typically at least offer you compensation. Acting like an idiot and refusing when they are well within their rights to remove you is moronic. The way those guys treated the guy, despite his actions, was also fucking stupid.

But when you book a flight, allowed to get into it. You have every right to expect to be on the flight as long as you havnt done anything wrong or suspected of doing anything wrong. I don't think the man fucked up, i would have stood my ground too, i paid for a service, everyone around me did too. And i expect to receive the service they are receiving. They offer compensation, but doesn't mean they can force you. They should have increased their offer till someone took it. They are the ones acting like children by forcing someone off because they want one of their own to take that seat. Overbooking is common but it shouldn't happen, it should be illegal. All the perfect computer systems in the world and billions of dollars but they can't fucking count lol. I don't believe in a case like this with no proper reason apart from their fuck up that they should have a right to remove whoever they want.

Yeh just a fkd up situation

Originally Posted by Paradox

But when you book a flight, allowed to get into it. You have every right to expect to be on the flight as long as you havnt done anything wrong or suspected of doing anything wrong. I don't think the man fucked up, i would have stood my ground too, i paid for a service, everyone around me did too. And i expect to receive the service they are receiving. They offer compensation, but doesn't mean they can force you. They should have increased their offer till someone took it. They are the ones acting like children by forcing someone off because they want one of their own to take that seat. Overbooking is common but it shouldn't happen, it should be illegal. All the perfect computer systems in the world and billions of dollars but they can't fucking count lol. I don't believe in a case like this with no proper reason apart from their fuck up that they should have a right to remove whoever they want.

Yeh just a fkd up situation

I completely agree with you, it's fucked and they shouldn't be able to, but legally they are well within their rights to force someone off a plane that is overbooked. They CYA in their Terms & Conditions when the ticket is purchased. This is some greedy bullshit they've been doing for decades to ensure they get the max dollars out of every flight possible, and you can be damn sure they covered their asses legally. The only reason this guy might get something out of it is because of the publicity.