Actually, come to think of it, his dumb comment explains the problem with airline logistics... The people who work in logistics are mouth-breathing, window-licking, numbskulls.

In logistics, one of your most basic things to cover is demand planning. United knew their schedule, they had their routes planned. They have years of data for them to use to forecast how full they expect each flight to be. They use that bloody data to work out when to schedule their flights, it’s hardly like they…

I ain’t your mom, do it yourself.

As someone who notices passive-aggressive behavior, I hope airlines remember to get their schedules in order to make sure their employees are there in time.

Interesting comment, considering Jet Blue as a corporate policy will not overbook and seems to be doing just fine. United just doesn’t have their shit together.

If you really work in airline logistics and believe the only options are forcibly dragging paying customers out of their seats or cancelling flights, you need to find another job.

As a paying customer, I would rather not be violently dragged from my seat resulting in a concussion and broken nose because the airline couldn’t get their shit together.

It’s almost like a major corporation that has been in business nearly ninety years should have a fucking handle on their logistics and personnel.

Stick them on a fucking bus or fly them there on another airline, which would require paying for the ticket and subjecting their employees to the experience of ACTUALLY BEING A PASSENGER.

I mean, they’ve got a logistics employee who just went online and basically said “we can’t beat the shit out of a random senior citizen? I guess we’ll have to cancel that flight...”. They seem to be working with a “good enough” mindset at the best of times.

I was about to flame OP with righteous fury, but I think you’ve got things covered here. Well done.

This should never be the cause for a cancelled flight.

Isn’t the entire point of your job to figure out how to do stuff like move your employees around without having to forcibly remove paying customers?
I mean, if you can’t do that then nobody should be paying you, probably.

Anything else I can do to help United as a passenger? Maybe break out my torque wrench and tighten those lugs on the fuselage before I board?

Yeah, threaten consumers for your incompetence. That really worked well for United last week.

Airlines not being able to staff their planes is the fault of the customer? Fuck you.

They could solve the logistics of moving employees by SAVING 4 or 6 seats on every flight in case they need them, then releasing to stand by passengers if not.

You know in other industries the people who work logistics manage it so their customers and their staff are not competing for the same limited resource. Deduct staff seating before selling seats and only sell as many seats as there are left on the plane. What you wrote is dumb and you should not feel smart for having…

As a paying customer of an airline, it is not my responsibility to make sure the airline has their bases covered. Give me a break.

As a passenger, I hope people remember that airlines need to manage their own shit and not ask paying passengers to do it for them.