No, they're just trying to appease the mob and trying to prevent us-vs-them attitude.
Or perhaps they recognise that beating a peaceful passenger up because he refused to give up his seat with good reason, was not acceptable.
After all, they have to deal with, and manage unruly and sometimes disgusting passenger behavior.
The passenger in question was neither of those things.
He was not violent or abusive. He just did not want to give up his seat. They could have simply found a different way to get the crew to their destination, instead of forcing people off their flight, for $800 worth of restricted flight credit, which would not have even allowed the passengers to rent a car or book with a different airline.
As a moderate traveler I experienced some cases where I could have been accommodated better but have many stories of bad-behaving passengers.
And I have been on flights where people were unruly, rude, loud, abusive and even threatening violence. Not once, did any of them have their heads bashed into the arm rest and then dragged off like an animal, with broken teeth and facial lacerations.
And yet, this is how they treat a passenger who had done absolutely nothing wrong, was not violent?
United airlines and its employees did not assault and did nothing illegal. In fact, the crew were professional and did not act “lowly”. Police officers, which are not employees of the airline, dragged the man out.
Pretty sure it was security that dragged him out of his seat and bashed his head into the armrest and then dragged him out.
Watch the video.
The police were there. It was security who did it though.
Whether or not you think overbooking is right, is not the point.
The flight
was not overbooked.
United spokesman Jonathan Guerin said Tuesday that all 70 seats on United Express Flight 3411 were filled, but the plane was not overbooked as the airline previously reported. Instead, United and regional affiliate Republic Airlines, which operated the flight, selected four passengers to be removed to accommodate crew members needed in Louisville the next day.
It is lawful, all airlines do it, and the ticket prices we pay are lower because of it. Also, from what I have read, this was not even a case of overbooking. They had to fly 4 pilots to their destinations or risk having to cancel flights which would affect hundreds or potentially thousands of people.
Not sure where you are from, but most civilised and even uncivilised countries have laws against beating someone to a pulp for doing nothing wrong.
media sensationalism – and do anything to create outrage – This combined with sense of entitlement the 1st world masses have today. “How dare they kick me out of the seat I paid for!” Yes, we all hate airlines and flying is a bitch. How entitled we feel – to be able to sit in a tube 30K feet in the sky and safely travel across the world in hours. My rights! I am being treated unfairly! -- (after being offered $800 plus hotel stay) for stepping off the plane. Again, the narcissistic entitlement –I’m not moving from my seat!
Are you suggesting that their security breaking the guy's face and then dragging him off the plane, then causing a delay that amounted to hours because they had to clean the plane, due to the blood splatter that resulted from their security bashing him into an arm rest and then dragging his bloodied body throughout the plane, was acceptable and done legitimately?
You think that was fair?
Look! I’m being dragged off!. Also, stupid, stupid.. not obeying police (men with guns). Men with guns – Some of them could be racist, some of them could be bad, some of them could just be having a bad day. Regardless of your ”rights”, it’s generally not a good idea to fight, argue, or even run away from Men With Guns. Police tells me to jump, I’ll jump. Then I’ll get a lawyer if I believe I was mistreated.
Well, that says it all, I guess..
