Americans upsetting the locals by being overly loud and brash? Say it ain’t so!

Funny, I live in K-Town and it’s well known that the Politzei target Americans.

The issue is people are focusing on the “legal right” yes United had the legal right but in reality violated the moral right. The customer paid for his seat, made plans around what united promised and then United changed their mind for their own personal gains.

No, the passenger wasn’t wrong. When flights are overbooked people are usually denied before the gate. He got his boarding pass so he was allowed on the plane. You can’t force someone who is on the plane to leave without a good reason. This is only made worse by the fact that he had to leave his seat for United…

Congrats to fistpuppet bubbajoe123456! You’ve identified the letter of the law, and expressed support for it, while ignoring the spirit. You rock!

Wow. More idiotic words have never spewed fecal matter as much from a person as you just shit over all this blog. The rules are that once a passenger has boarded the airlines asks for volunteers. Do you comprehend the definition of volunteer? I have to ask because your mental capacities appear to be deficient. If…

Guess we now know what Oscar Munoz screename is on these message boards...... I had never thought of someone expecting a service that they freaking paid for as belligerent. Also, its not freaking “Volunteer” if they are dragging you off a plane.

You don’t get it. The US goverment is not responsible for an overbooked flight. United Airlines should not be allowed to ask the police to remove people in an instance like this. The police should have just been like ... “well united you fucked up.” United could have just sent a private plane to pick up their…

Just because it’s legal doesn’t make it right. The assholes on standby should have stayed on standby. You don’t load a plane and then physically force a passenger off so you can make room for one of your employees (or any other standby passenger) and then get to maintain the moral high ground.

Good. Fuck your company.

Actually the airline is wrong to sell more tickets than seats. If I were to sell you a dozen eggs and knowingly only had a crate that could hold 6, I’d actually be committing fraud. He had a ticket for a flight that was to leave on a specific day and specific time. So no, he was not in the wrong at all.

Dumb behavior by United. Kicks off 4 paying passengers for 4 employees.

Why is it that after nobody took United up on the offer of an increased voucher, United didn’t just pay for its employees to rent a vehicle and drive down to Louisville? Basic Google map search showed it was only like a 4 hour ride.

That is the most stupid comment I’ve read about anything, anywhere in my entire life. You have to be really dumb to justify the violence used in this situation. I mean, really, really dumb. Unless You’re just an internet troll You need to visit the repair shop and have Your bullets tightened.   
As a company You do not…

How do you feel about the airline beating them?

He was not belligerent. He was a 69 year old man not much of a threat to anyone. The airline created this situation by overbooking.They could have offered up more money to get a volunteer because it would have bee a lot less the $750M lost. Also it was for someone that was on stand by aren’t those even less of a…

No, I think I’ll go to the root cause: The airline decided to bump a paying passenger so one of their employees could fly. Fault: Airline.

Exactly! Why should a customer expect to get anything they pay for? And why should an airline company take responsibility for being so incompetent they are unable to schedule and reserve seats for their own employees? This is America! The land of the corporations. Anyone who thinks differently should move to China.

“..airline who called them to remove a belligerent passenger”? Next time, read the actual article.

You’re the idiot for thinking this way. The only thing this poor guy did wrong was purchase a ticket with this company. United could have increased the amount offered to attract volunteers to give up their seats, but since they are run and operated by morons like you they decided to stop the offer at $800.00 and…