Fook United Airlines

[hurley842002]

I won't repeat them.

Wow, it's a sad state around here when Irv can't crack one of his funnys without making someone cry.

[Honey Badger282.8]

Pretty bad PR for United. Still, I'd fly United any day of the week before I ever fly Frontier again.

[Irving]

We don't need to derail the thread, but we don't know what's going on in people's lives at any given time. While I was using his premise to make a run of the mill no one likes going to see family joke, and not saying anything about his family specifically, that doesn't mean he couldn't have taken it that way. I'll be the first to admit that I crack a lot of jokes, and with high volume comes a pretty high flop rate. There are going to be times when I pick the wrong person/time to set-up a joke. That's okay. Sometimes I go off on people here when they say something I'm feeling particularly sensitive about on whatever day. Cheers everyone. Down with commercial air travel, hurrah!

[LX470]

How would you you like to be an airline employee dealing with the angry traveling public everyday...not for me!

[Graves]

Most of us got the joke, stu.

[DireWolf]

Pretty bad PR for United. Still, I'd fly United any day of the week before I ever fly Frontier again.

This....I had summit status with Frontier when they got acquired by the Spirit airlines people....Two flights later and I said fuck that, never again.....

The real problem is that they know damn well that there's a significant portion of the population who have no choice but to fly and since most of us enjoy not being in prison, they (ignorant airline employees - but to be fair, not all of them) can pull all kinds of shit without getting their teeth knocked the fuck out.....


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[Madeinhb]

Airlines are legally allowed to bump passengers, even once they are seated. Thank deregulation for that. However, 99.99999% of time - they bump before boarding. This was just handled wrong by United

[Gman]

We don't need to derail the thread, but we don't know what's going on in people's lives at any given time. While I was using his premise to make a run of the mill no one likes going to see family joke, and not saying anything about his family specifically, that doesn't mean he couldn't have taken it that way. I'll be the first to admit that I crack a lot of jokes, and with high volume comes a pretty high flop rate. There are going to be times when I pick the wrong person/time to set-up a joke. That's okay. Sometimes I go off on people here when they say something I'm feeling particularly sensitive about on whatever day. Cheers everyone. Down with commercial air travel, hurrah!

Yeah, my dad's health is in decline and I won't have him much longer, so jokes about my family or my relationship to my family are really not something I take lightly. I missed my chance to visit with them last year due to my wife's surgeries and my spinal fusion surgery. As a rule, I don't talk about any member to this board's family as a joke or in any negative way. You can poke fun at me, I'm a target rich opportunity. My family is another story. Thanks, Stu.

As for airlines, I have control issues. I don't like to cede myself to being treated like cargo. I also love to drive and see some beautiful parts of this great country. I'm really looking forward to our next trip through Montana and the Idaho panhandle.

[Irving]

Sounds like United Airlines is having a real Monday today.

[funkymonkey1111]

Bad day for that customer. According to a friend who is a pilot, that guy committed a felony by refusing to obey air crew instructions. It was Chicago PD that hauled him off.

In this case, it wasn't the usual overbooking that is SOP. It's a result of the storms on the East Coast last week that created chaos for all the airlines with flight cancellations. They all have to deadhead crews around the country because many crews hit the time limits or are in the wrong place. Also rescheduled flights often end up on different planes so even a confirmed seat doesn't mean anything after a severe weather event. Many passengers were on standby tickets, which gives them even less rights.

Wasn't even a United crew but subcontractors. Still a PR nightmare for United. But pretty much all airlines suck these days if you don't have Business Class or better.

yeah, fuck your pilot friend. it's that b.s. attitude of "if you cross me it's a felony" that escalates the idiotic tension on planes. If i never set foot on another commercial airliner it'd be fine with me--listening to some a-hole glorified bus driver telling me what the wind direction is. Who, in the history of being a passenger on a plane, gives a crap about the wind speed and wind direction? "oh shit, it's blowing 19 miles from the east in denver--i guess i'd better not eat that second bag of peanuts!"

and as for over booking, i understand how these flying bus lines want to hedge their bets. but have you been on a flight since 9/11 that has had an empty seat? maybe it's just that i'm going places that people want to go, but i can't remember a vacant seat on any flight in the last 15 years.