United Airlines stock is PLUMMETING. 3.7% equating to 380 million dollars, this is how you majorly fuck up a company.

TL;DW: United Airlines overbooks on a flight, decides to kick paying customers off the flight for their employees, a doctor who has to see patients in the morning refuses, and they beat the man and forcibly drag off the plane.

GG United, should've just stayed with breaking musical instruments.

I wouldn't feel too bad about their stocks falling after this pitiful response from the CEO.



fuck 'em

Seems like a pretty reasonable response. What exactly do you expect him to do? Self flagellate himself in front of the passenger?

Quote from: Anglosaxophone on April 11, 2017, 12:45:31 PM

Quote from: Nuka on April 11, 2017, 12:41:21 PM

I wouldn't feel too bad about their stocks falling after this pitiful response from the CEO.



fuck 'em

Seems like a pretty reasonable response. What exactly do you expect him to do? Self flagellate himself in front of the passenger?

Maybe say something acknowledging that one of his paying customers was assaulted, rather than applaud himself for re-accommodation which, you know, is the reason for this mess.

I didn't derive that from his statement at all. Just seemed like a cookie cutter response a CEO would provide after a serious incident within the organisation. I think you're looking too much into it.

Damn I might take a trip soon their tickets boutta be super cheap

the fact that airlines can overbook planes on purpose sickens me. the employees can go fuck themselves, they can catch the next flight, those people paid and should be expected to go to their destinations without any repercussions. in this case, no one should be kicked off just because of an error in booking.

re-accommodate.
lol

Just like Bungie re-accommodated everyone to Sep7 for not playing Destiny.
He had a confirmed reserved seat too. Their company policy does not say that an employee gets priority over a confirmed passenger.

Quote from: Naru on April 11, 2017, 03:46:50 PM

the fact that airlines can overbook planes on purpose sickens me. the employees can go fuck themselves, they can catch the next flight, those people paid and should be expected to go to their destinations without any repercussions. in this case, no one should be kicked off just because of an error in booking.

Okay
picture the scenario

Do we inconvenience four people here on this one flight because we fucked up, or do we inconvenience an entire flight elsewhere because four pilots that need transferred to Louisville are stuck in Chicago?

the airliner shouldnt be overbooking in the first place

Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on April 11, 2017, 04:10:55 PM

Quote from: Naru on April 11, 2017, 03:46:50 PM

the fact that airlines can overbook planes on purpose sickens me. the employees can go fuck themselves, they can catch the next flight, those people paid and should be expected to go to their destinations without any repercussions. in this case, no one should be kicked off just because of an error in booking.

Okay
picture the scenario

Do we inconvenience four people here on this one flight because we fucked up, or do we inconvenience an entire flight elsewhere because four pilots that need transferred to Louisville are stuck in Chicago?

the airliner shouldnt be overbooking in the first place

Overbooking is part of what makes or breaks regional routes. There's a lot of revenue in it and regionals need a lot more money to operate than international or coast-to-coast nonstop flights because upwards of six cycles a day really adds up fast on your limited life components.  It's a bitch and really annoying to get bumped because of it, but it's just a thing that has to be in the airline industry unless you want to see even higher ticket prices.

Damn, that guy paid a few hundred for a ticket and now he's going to thousands out of the lawsuit.

Thousands? Lol. He's getting more than thousands.

Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on April 11, 2017, 06:15:19 PM

Quote from: Naru on April 11, 2017, 06:02:16 PM

Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on April 11, 2017, 04:10:55 PM

Quote from: Naru on April 11, 2017, 03:46:50 PM

the fact that airlines can overbook planes on purpose sickens me. the employees can go fuck themselves, they can catch the next flight, those people paid and should be expected to go to their destinations without any repercussions. in this case, no one should be kicked off just because of an error in booking.

Okay
picture the scenario

Do we inconvenience four people here on this one flight because we fucked up, or do we inconvenience an entire flight elsewhere because four pilots that need transferred to Louisville are stuck in Chicago?

the airliner shouldnt be overbooking in the first place

Overbooking is part of what makes or breaks regional routes. There's a lot of revenue in it and regionals need a lot more money to operate than international or coast-to-coast nonstop flights because upwards of six cycles a day really adds up fast on your limited life components.  It's a bitch and really annoying to get bumped because of it, but it's just a thing that has to be in the airline industry unless you want to see even higher ticket prices.

Yeah, but not all airlines do it

JetBlue specifically gets around it by specifically planning their routes in ways that avoid being close behind what might be inbound connecting flights and then also being absolutely unaccommodating in every single other way and offering no flexibility on missed, postponed, or extensively delayed flights, be they your fault or the fault of your previous flight running late.

They also seem to have problems maintaining their A321 fleet.

Quote from: Ser(cation needed) Duncan on April 11, 2017, 06:54:04 PM

Damn, that guy paid a few hundred for a ticket and now he's going to thousands out of the lawsuit.

Thousands? Lol. He's getting more than thousands.

Hell, if any of his blood got on the passengers then there's going to be lawsuits from that as well.

Sounds like an Oompa Loompa song lmao

The ching chongs are uniting

"We boil animals alive but manhandling a grown man that's way out of proportion"