Fook United Airlines

**Aloha_Shooter** · 04-18-2017, 13:09

Originally Posted by Fmedges

The lack of choice thanks to repeated mergers means in most regions there are only a few choices when it comes to air travel. In my opinion this means that no matter how much you pay the companies will never be too concerned with customer service. Your choice is of course to get over it or not fly. While I understand that if I buy a first class ticket that I will in theory get better service than the lowest ticked passenger I can't blame people for opting for the low price option. We already pay the TSA tax, baggage fees, upgraded anything fees, ticket change fees etc. In a world where median wage increases don't go up nearly a tenth as the costs of everything else, again I can hardly blame people for purchasing cheap air fares.

It's not theory, you DO get better service when you pay for the first class ticket. I've seen it, and once or twice benefited from it. The catch is that first class ticket does cost quite a bit but that's how the world works, you get what you pay for. Only in SJW land do people get free stuff no matter what. We as a society opted for and drove the commercial aviation market toward being flying buses so it shouldn't be any surprise that customer service is on par. Virgin offers better service overall but they fly in specific limited markets where they can get the fares that pay for it.

None of that has anything to do with forcible deboarding but then most of us don't tell the airlines or Chicago security, "you'll have to carry me off". Guess what? They did.

**Fmedges** · 04-19-2017, 08:00

Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter

It's not theory, you DO get better service when you pay for the first class ticket. I've seen it, and once or twice benefited from it. The catch is that first class ticket does cost quite a bit but that's how the world works, you get what you pay for. Only in SJW land do people get free stuff no matter what. We as a society opted for and drove the commercial aviation market toward being flying buses so it shouldn't be any surprise that customer service is on par. Virgin offers better service overall but they fly in specific limited markets where they can get the fares that pay for it.

None of that has anything to do with forcible deboarding but then most of us don't tell the airlines or Chicago security, "you'll have to carry me off". Guess what? They did.

First class passenger kicked off of a flight for similar reasons.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/201...seat/22037334/

We both agree that having to be forceably removed from a flight is just plain stupid.

**Madeinhb** · 04-19-2017, 08:16

Originally Posted by Fmedges

First class passenger kicked off of a flight for similar reasons.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/201...seat/22037334/

We both agree that having to be forceably removed from a flight is just plain stupid.

Yup. I heard about this. Also heard the reason was because "someone more important needed his seat"

**Ridge** · 04-19-2017, 18:04

Originally Posted by Fmedges

First class passenger kicked off of a flight for similar reasons.
https://www.aol.com/article/news/201...seat/22037334/

We both agree that having to be forceably removed from a flight is just plain stupid.