But they’re not returning the money for those cancelled seats so what’s the problem? How are they losing money? Not that it matters, because it is unconscionable to risk having to kick people off flights because they overbooked.
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It’s not procedure*. In an overbooked situation, the *employees* are the ones asked to give up their seats for passengers, not the other way around. This is obscene. I was considering switching my loyalty program from American to United, but between the leggings incident and this I just don’t know if I can.
That man is a dream plaintiff. I can’t wait to see how much United loses.
Agreed. I’m a lawyer and I would say YES they did.
Because this is America in 2017. We lent the airlines billions of dollars to help them stay in business after September 11th, most of which has never been paid back, and this is how they treat paying customers now.
yeah it’s clearly a blatant money grab. especially since someone not showing up means the plane is lighter and therefore uses (probably incrementally, but whatever) less fuel. it’s not even like they lose money if someone doesn’t make their flight.
Not only that, but they wanted to give his seat to an employee who was deadheading to another flight for the next day. At at airport that’s only a 5 hour drive away.
I imagine United just opened itself up to a lawsuit.
Good grief that photo basically represents the Trump family. Gilded and absolutely clueless at doing their jobs.
And this, right here, is the core of what makes Ivanka such a imminent threat to this country. Because Ivanka truly believes that she understands your pain.
The second part of that lemonade stand story In The New Yorker is kind of revealing, too, but in a different way:
They persuaded their bodyguard to buy lemonade, and then their driver, and then the maids, who “dug deep for their spare change.”
When you realize Omarosa found someone who is OK with being married to her, but you haven’t made it past a first date in almost 3 years.
Sliced bread wasn’t invented until the 1920s, when automatic bread slicers made it possible to sell pre-sliced bread. We invented roller coasters and airplanes before we invented sliced bread, which is the only reason that saying exists.
It’s been posted a thousand times this week, but it needs to be posted a thousand more:
The news referred to it as “the Souhern White House” today and I about lost it. The only way that shit flies is if the next President evicts him and eminent domains Mar a Lago as a permanent Presidential retreat.
You’ve got it all wrong. First, Putin notified Trump. THEN Trump “notified” Russia. Then Russia notified Syria. THEN Congress heard about it on Twitter.
Fuck McCain. He talked a good game about how “stupid” is was to invoke the nuclear option, then voted for it anyway.
I thought it was weird that Trump suddenly gave a shit about dead babies. Sigh, this is plausible.