I have an algorithm. It’s called “raise the cap on compensatory credit beyond $800”. Hope Deep Blue can handle that one.

Which means, they should have just kept upping the reimbursement. If it was that dire keep offering more until people fly out of their seats to take it. And offer a rescheduled flight and cash incentives. They just needed 4 seats right? Double the $400. Make it $1000. That’s say 4k for united airlines plus cost…

I can’t remember which airline it was - I’m leaning towards it being American, as they were who usually did the first leg of my journey - but I was bumped off a flight to JFK from DC due to overbooking two days before Christmas several years back. Obviously at that time of year, everyone is desparate to get home on…

Regardless, United should have offered hefty incentives and not brutality to open up those seats.

A set he paid for? Id be one thing if they never let him board but there is no provision for United forcibly removing a paying passenger that has committed no crime. He had absolutely no obligation to give up that seat. I hope he owns that airline by the time he’s done suing.

Thank you for the info! And I just had to purchase a ticket. It was more money (slightly) to fly on not-United, but fuck if they are getting my money now.

Nope fuck that. People would have just kept giving excuses not to be able to do it. I think they should have kept upping the reimbursement until people started to fly out of their seats.

I’ve read some lawyer opinions that United may have violated their contract of carriage, as the following appears to be the case:

THIS. United chose to eject paying customers so their people could get seats. The plane was at capacity not overbooked. United failed with on two fronts, by not having guaranteed transport for staff and for you know, assaulting and abusing paying customers.

IF ONLY this were a more viable option for travel in the US. I would happily skip to the train and spend a day there to go from Chicago to Omaha if 1) the trains were ever even on the same planet as on time or 2) the journey didn’t take 15 hours because of all the stops. I would love to see the US invest in their…

Jesus. These people have been double-speaking bourgeoisie for so fucking long, never having to travel economy or, likely, on anything that’s not a private plane, they don’t realize that anyone who was forced to give up their seat against their will, when they paid for their seat and were already assigned their seat…

Just to make it clear. The aircraft was not “overbooked”. It only became overbooked when four additional United employees showed up late and demanded seats.

Where’s Kendall Jenner when you really need her?!

The comments over on Gizmodo are depressing AF. To paraphrase, the elderly doctor deserved it, should not have raised his voice, should have just used his “cell phone to re-book patients from his hotel room,” and that this whole incident has been entirely blown out of proportion.

Why didn’t the doctor just hand the cop a Pepsi?

And “I know what you did last summer but cannot bring myself to care”

As long as we have Reese, it will be fine.

I was just reminiscing about how bad ass Letty is in the F&F franchise, which is one of the reasons I love it so much.

Masterful use of the Jenny Slate gif, A+