Why did United Airlines cave to the liberals by apologizing? They did nothing wrong.?

Question

The guy should have followed orders and left his seat. The guy refused to obey orders of the police so what else could they do except drag him. Liberals are always disobeying authority and the police and don't expect reprocusions. We need to quit trying to please them. Respect the police and quit listening to liberals.

Answer 1

that is not the procedure... the airlines need a seat and request volunteers... they should have tried harder to get someone to give up their seat, not call the cops and drag the man down the aisle like an animal... the police should not have entered into this situation...

Answer 2

that is not the procedure... the airlines need a seat and request volunteers... they should have tried harder to get someone to give up their seat, not call the cops and drag the man down the aisle like an animal... the police should not have entered into this situation...

Answer 3

All I have heard from the political right wing on virtually anything is 'freedom' and 'liberty'.



Now here we have a situation where someone paid for a seat. Then suddenly - for no good reason - he is told that because someone else screwed up he is being ordered to give up the seat he paid for. Why the hell SHOULD he have to give it up?



And the police certainly over reacted. Physically dragging the civilian down the aisle, and carelessly dropping him causing the man lacerations and bruises.



The reports I've read the employees were traveling standby. Standby. That means that they will fly IF there are seats available. One version of the story said that the employees were needed elsewhere. If that is true it sounds like United management screwed up. Mr Dao did nothing wrong.



You blame liberals. What the hell do you call 'freedom" or "liberty?? When the police have the authority to just grab and manhandle an innocent man?



I hope Mr Dao sues the pants off United Airlines and each and every person involved with this fiasco.

Answer 4

He's supposed to screw up his plans because United have a staffing problem? No, United should have bitten the bullet and deployed some staff from elsewhere on an emergency basis. It would have cost them a LOT less than the debacle which ensued.

Answer 5

The police will have repercussions because they will be sued by the passenger who dragged him off the plane if United doesn't offer a settlement to prevent the passenger from suing United. United doesn't want to go to court as a jury would award more than a settlement to the passenger as well as have a lot more bad publicity. The police did do something wrong and they aren't allowed to use brute force to remove a passenger from the plane, especially by dragging him down the isle for other passengers to witness. The passenger paid for his seat and although United had four employees it wanted on the plane, the fact this knowledge was learned after all the passengers were on the plane waiting for takeoff means United was negligent by not informing the passengers four passengers will have to give up their seats for the United employees while the passengers were in the waiting area before being allowed to board the plane. Even the CEO of United has said the incident was wrongly handled. The police don't expect repercussions, but the police have no control over what the passenger will do and the police may have to hire an attorney to defend them in court were the passenger to sue them. The police had the right to remove him from the plane, but they didn't have the right to rough up the passenger while removing him as the way they removed him was by physically harming him for no reason other than the passenger stating he won't leave his seat because he had to be in St. Louis to treat his patients. The proper protocol in such a case is to hand cuff the passenger and walk him off the plane without using brute force which include not dragging him down the isle in front of other passengers. The police took it upon themselves to use excessive force to remove the passenger when the passenger posed no threat of harm to the police. This is excessive force and the police will most likely be sued by the passenger if United doesn't offer a settlement to the passenger, which would be a lot better for United as then they can put this behind them and move on and get back the passengers who decided not to fly United anymore because of this incident.

Answer 6

The man PAID for a service to be performed on a particular date and time; he did not get what he paid for. A friend, former airline worker, now retired, told me today that the POLICIES state they cannot ask a passengers on board and seated to leave for over-booking; those that came later are not allowed to board; they KNOW how many seats there are and how many passengers can board & they DO count people boarding. And that the idea of removing paying passengers already seated to give the seats to non-paying employees is unheard of. Non-paying employees usually are the first to board.



The police simply acted on the behest of the airline workers without question like puppets rather than investigate why; they acted like airline employees, not like public servant law enforcement personnel... bad, bad, bad publicity for the cops blindly catering to big business money.



The "fine print" some are repeating ad nauseum... that is a feeble attempt to UNLAWFULLY violate people's civil, legal and Constitutional rights, freedoms and liberties. NO ONE loses their civil, legal or Constitutional rights, freedoms and liberties by entering a business' property/premises. And signing the ticket can be argued is done under duress since you have no pragmatic, viable options available and cannot board unless it's signed.



Airlines have become abusive toward passengers. People must fight back and take back our civil, legal and Constitutional rights, freedoms and liberties and DEMAND we be treated with courtesy, dignity and respect. Seems like our elected officials need to wake up and start earning their salaries and benefits for a change.

Answer 7

Because they were wrong and they know it. The passenger was already seated. It could and should have all been avoided, had they done this before the passengers had boarded the plane. If they didn't know that their staff had to get to their destination in time for work next day, then they shouldn't be in the business. To board a plane just before take off and forcefully drag a passenger off, just to accommodate it's own staff is totally wrong. I just hope that the doctor sues them for breach of contract and the humiliation that he suffered, as a consequence of the airlines disgusting and disgraceful treatment of him. $380,000,000 has been wiped off the value of United's shares, what a way to go down the plughole.

Answer 8

Sieg Heil!

Answer 9

United had every right to bump passengers BEFORE THEY BOARDED THE PLANE......that is what the rules say. But once the passengers are on the plane, the airlines have no right to involuntarily remove them. UNITED is going to get sued and will lose.

Answer 10

They apologized because the nightly news showed videos of the airline goons dragging a physician off the plane. Personally, I consider a physician's appointments the next morning to be as important as getting a flight crew to the airport. United should have arranged to have another airline fly the man to Louisville within a short time of the flight he booked. While bumping passengers may be legal, it smacks of breach of contract to me.

Answer 11

Quit your goddamn lying, dummy. Because it was a clear violation of that man's rights:



"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, "



Airlines defrauding paying customers - and using the cops to help them do it - is criminally unreasonable.

He conducted a transaction in good faith, paying money for a seat on that flight. The airline didn't.



Get your drooling dumb@ss a copy of the Constitution and go find a grown-up to read it to you.

@ssclowns like you are a shame and embarrassment to all true, genuine, actual conservatives everywhere.

Realize it and smarten up.

Answer 12

you're not making any sense. united did not cave in to 'liberals' but to the general public. so, united is facing the consequences of how it treated a customer.

Answer 13

I have seen the exact same thing happen on Alaskan Airlines. There wasn't any problem. Of course the steward kindly ask the people over the loudspeaker to voluntarily leave.

Answer 14

The man paid for his seat and was buckled in. He was 69 year old Doctor. They broke his nose, knocked out his teeth and he has a concussion. A pregnant lady was sitting behind him holding a two year old was injured as well. Her child is traumatized. The Fat Hog goal was to make American hate again and he is doing a great job at that.

Answer 15

The bleeding hearts again. We all have to obey the Police - especially on an airplane where it could be a public safety issue.

Answer 16

You suckling pig, you simpering little ****-starter, you know goddamn well they f------ up major. You're just playing a devils advocate acting all innocent "they did nothing wrong".

You make me throw up. I hope i get the opportunity to throw up on you you mealy mouth maggot.

I never present myself like this. I suck it in and maintain my decorum. **** it I might not be here in two days. Stupid **** for brains like you is why this country is no longer America, land of the free and home of the brave. It's land of the dumpster diving gutter sluts and hood rats, and home of the criminally insane sociopaths. By the way, some political analysts profiled Trump and said his policies are not Republican conservative. They say his posing days are almost over. He's a ****** liberal , so ha ******* ha

Answer 17

No company should disrespect its customers like that. That is what was "wrong".

Answer 18

What have the Liberals got to do with anything. A contract is a contract, if UA want to break it, they should pay the consequences.

What do you mean they have done nothing wrong. Did he really disobey anyone? I that was me, I would have refused until UA backed down. I do respect the police but they should not have got involved

Answer 19

Read the damn article!!! 1) The flight was NOT overbooked. 2) The rule is that no passenger already seated on the aircraft can be forced off the plane. Only passengers that had not yet boarded the plane.

Answer 20

they could of picked someone else or they could of just made him go up without dragging him

Answer 21

Yeah? Well see how "wrong" the guy was, when he sues and ends up OWNING their airline.



There is VIDEO of the Whole thing, and he ended up bloodied and bruised, all because he wanted to sit in the seat he bought and paid for, and was already sitting in it, when TOLD , for no reason, that he had to give up the seat he paid for.



United's f*** ups , were not the man's problem.



the physical abuse he suffered will be Worth MILLIONS in a court of law.

Answer 22

Obviously the police wouldn't have used force had the individual Chinese doctor just followed orders as a disciplined adult would have done. However, any adult could have precipitated an incident, blamed it on prejudice of some kind, and ultimately collected a lot of money for his temporary troubles. The police should have been more composed and calm. They should have just asked a different person until they found someone agreeable to the free ticket offer. It was the fault of the police for getting too violent.

Answer 23

That is not the procedure. The airlines need a seat and request volunteers. They should have tried harder to get someone to give up their seat, not call the cops and drag the man down the aisle like an animal. The police should not have entered into this situation.

Answer 24

They were actual police? I thought they were airline security. Now the police are going to get slated for just doing what the airline said with no investigation as to the facts.

What United did was totally indefensible. The guy was in his seat. Bumping occurs at check-in.

Answer 25

they werent the police- they were airport security



"Liberals are always disobeying authority"

what "authority"?

you pay for a seat,

you go sit in it

then somebody tells you to get out of it, then when you refuse they drag you out of it

Why do they do all this?

cos they want to let somebody who aint paid for a seat sit in it



So If I came over to your house and told you to get out of your seat cos I wanted to sit in it- would you get out of it or not?

Answer 26

He paid for the seat.

Answer 27

Actually, when you buy a ticket to fly you sign a contract with that company. You are buying a service. They guaranteed you a seat on the plane that will fly you from point A to point B.



It isn't the consumer's fault that the company lacks the ability to counts seats. Unless, it is written in the contract that they can randomly take your seat and give it to someone else, without notice, then that person can't complain.

Answer 28

Are you serious? What does this have to do with liberals? This is a matter of basic human decency in the treatment of a paying passenger on a major carrier.

Answer 29

on the contrary although they were within their rights they handled the situation very poorly and attracted adverse publicity Of course they should apologise for that

Answer 30

ok, lets drag you off a plane

Answer 31

This is like something out of Doctor Strangelove - and all to look after fellow workers!

Answer 32

They broke the law. Bumping paying costumers to transport off-duty personnel is illegal, it's fraudulent.



The Airline broke the law when they called the police = crime

The Police should've asked why they had to remove the guy = crime



So I'm not sure why you think it's a 'liberal thing', because they broke the law, don't you like the law? Are you anti-American?