Ken,
I think under the circumstances I might have reacted in a similar way to
the victim - If they had drawn strawsor some other means of fairly
selecting4 people and I came up unlucky then I would think fair enough
and leave without a fuss (or even explained why the employeees should
take preference to me) but this doesn't appear to have been done fairly
and it then escalated into an incident - should we put our trust in
people who can't handle a simple task like an overbooked planewithout
resorting to violence.
An airline supervisor walked onto the plane and brusquely announced: “We
have United employees that need to fly to Louisville tonight. … This
flight’s not leaving until four people get off.”
“That rubbed some people the wrong way,” Bridges said.
On a related note a pal and I were flying lufthansa to Munch
oktobetrfest 15 years ago and as we got to checkin they announced the
flight was overbooked, I knew this happened so suggested to my pal to
wait, 150 Euros compensation a bump to business class on the next flight
4 hours later and free use of the business lounge and facilities (aka
Alchohol) all was good everyone happy and no need to pull us unwilling
from the plane - they did have to pry us from the bar though :-)
IanW
BTW I am also starting tostudy IT security (want to get my CISSP) as I
need to get back control of my career rather than wait for someone in
finance to decide I cost to much (why do they always forget the cost
cutting on the Titanic)
On 19.04.17 17:50, Ken Norton wrote:
Mike Rowe did a fantastic job of writing about this. It's weird that I
find myself agreeing with him more and more, the older I get. But
anyway, his point is that there is absolutely no place for anarchy
inside the tube of aluminum. When the crew tells you to do something,
you do it. Period. Take up your case outside the plane, but what that
guy did was not acceptable and force WAS REQUIRED once he proved
himself unwilling to follow the law and refused to leave.
Frankly, had I been on that plane, if he wouldn't have been removed, I
would have walked off the plane myself. I won't willingly put myself
into a threat environment where you have a fully-crazed out lunatic
kept on the plane with me at 35,000 feet. No way, no how. I would have
been outta there.
The fact that everybody and their "service animal" was video capturing
this event tells me that the situation had escalated to the point of
crisis long before he was dragged down the aisle.
United botched this up on a PR perspective, but laws are laws and this
guy was far beyond the point of being allowed to stay on the plane.
Frankly, the blame also resides with the people on the flight that
COULD have given up their seats once THEY heard that he was a doctor
needing to get back. Oh, but no...
AG (Southwest) Schnozz
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