USA Today: UA forcibly remove random pax from flight
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Indeed. Employees need to be empowered to make decisions outside the box when necessary.
All three officers are now under suspension. Hopefully we will soon learn what UAL staff told the Airport Police that generated their response. Regardless, whatever was said won't justify the use of excess force, let alone their involvement in the first place.
All three officers are now under suspension. Hopefully we will soon learn what UAL staff told the Airport Police that generated their response. Regardless, whatever was said won't justify the use of excess force, let alone their involvement in the first place.
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“Aviation Security Officers (ASOs) are part of the public safety teams at both O’Hare and Midway, and complement and assist the Chicago Police Department (CPD)
Rent a cops
Not United, not the crew not UA agents, rent a cops.
Rent a cops
Not United, not the crew not UA agents, rent a cops.
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I'm still bemused whilst trying to understand the logic whereas crew may only position (deadhead) by scheduled service and not by privately chartered aircraft, where sitting in steerage, perhaps sandwiched between two other passengers, is preferably to a privately chartered aircraft, personal service and able to stretch one's legs, when I worked crew scheduling and I were to have offered crew the choice they would have jumped at the offer of a privately chartered aircraft.
I recall my first airline department manager, he started his career at London/Croydon Airport and as the aircraft would taxi from stand the ground staff would salute the Captain.
In the main things have moved on from the age of dinosaurs, alas it seems that union involvement, probably refusing to move with the times and give up a right that has been in place since the dark ages, has created the situation that occurred last Sunday.
As I believe the UAL CEO was quoted as saying, that his staff have plenty of common sense but aren't allowed to use it, it seems that UAL, perhaps the union, have allowed it to be forgotten that they are in the business of transporting fare paying passengers and those fare paying passengers should always be their first priority.
I recall my first airline department manager, he started his career at London/Croydon Airport and as the aircraft would taxi from stand the ground staff would salute the Captain.
In the main things have moved on from the age of dinosaurs, alas it seems that union involvement, probably refusing to move with the times and give up a right that has been in place since the dark ages, has created the situation that occurred last Sunday.
As I believe the UAL CEO was quoted as saying, that his staff have plenty of common sense but aren't allowed to use it, it seems that UAL, perhaps the union, have allowed it to be forgotten that they are in the business of transporting fare paying passengers and those fare paying passengers should always be their first priority.
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“followed our involuntary denial of boarding process (including offering up to $1,000 in compensation).”
If all they offered me was a voucher I'd tell them to "shove it" also!
I wonder if ethnicity is in the unloading algorithm.
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I'm still bemused whilst trying to understand the logic whereas crew may only position (deadhead) by scheduled service and not by privately chartered aircraft, where sitting in steerage, perhaps sandwiched between two other passengers, is preferably to a privately chartered aircraft, personal service and able to stretch one's legs, when I worked crew scheduling and I were to have offered crew the choice they would have jumped at the offer of a privately chartered aircraft.
I recall my first airline department manager, he started his career at London/Croydon Airport and as the aircraft would taxi from stand the ground staff would salute the Captain.
In the main things have moved on from the age of dinosaurs, alas it seems that union involvement, probably refusing to move with the times and give up a right that has been in place since the dark ages, has created the situation that occurred last Sunday.
As I believe the UAL CEO was quoted as saying, that his staff have plenty of common sense but aren't allowed to use it, it seems that UAL, perhaps the union, have allowed it to be forgotten that they are in the business of transporting fare paying passengers and those fare paying passengers should always be their first priority.
I recall my first airline department manager, he started his career at London/Croydon Airport and as the aircraft would taxi from stand the ground staff would salute the Captain.
In the main things have moved on from the age of dinosaurs, alas it seems that union involvement, probably refusing to move with the times and give up a right that has been in place since the dark ages, has created the situation that occurred last Sunday.
As I believe the UAL CEO was quoted as saying, that his staff have plenty of common sense but aren't allowed to use it, it seems that UAL, perhaps the union, have allowed it to be forgotten that they are in the business of transporting fare paying passengers and those fare paying passengers should always be their first priority.
A no brainer, except to maybe unions stuck in the dinosaur ages and certain legacy airlines.
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https://www.tripadvisor.com/Airlines
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors are considering a rule that would prohibit the use of SFPD to enforce policy decisions on the part of any airline. IOW, if you choose to deplane a passenger under overbooking circumstances, you get to do it...and you get to absorb the full liability of your decision.
The airlines create this situation, try limited steps to resolve it, and then resort to threatening pax with LEO if s/he don't cooperate. This threat does usually sort out the problem, but if the threat doesn't work then LEO get caught in the mess.
You break it, you own it. Next time you might be more careful not to break it.
While :
is undeniably true, so are the following, as examples only.
Dickensian employment conditions = no staff = no business, and
No profits=no investors=no business, and probably a few more.
It's a balancing act and it ain't as simple as any one liner.
is undeniably true, so are the following, as examples only.
Dickensian employment conditions = no staff = no business, and
No profits=no investors=no business, and probably a few more.
It's a balancing act and it ain't as simple as any one liner.
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Local Bay Area news reporting that all passengers on that flight are to have their ticket price refunded either in cash or coupons. And more importantly, a class action lawsuit is being planned by those on the flight.
United is getting more egg on face.
United is getting more egg on face.
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Here's the initial filing in the lawsuit discovery process for all of the sea lawyers here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/3450...ion#fullscreen
https://www.scribd.com/document/3450...ion#fullscreen
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After a quick scroll through the UA Facebook page it appears that every post has been 'hijacked' by unhappy customers and complaints about this most recent incident and also other incidents which are extremely similar. And before this latest incident there are people compaqlining about the leggings incident. UA have stopped responding on Facebook and Twitter now.
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There are a few captains on this thread whose approach is 'the captain has absolute authority, all must obey instantly and if failure to obey gets you a blooded face, so be it'. There are excellent operational reasons for captains' authority, and the last thing they need is regulation or statute which complicates or curtails it. But touting such discretion as the final word in a case like this is unwise: there is huge public dismay at this case and those who use 'the rules' to justify it must remember that 'the rules' ultimately depend on society's consent and consensus: don't issue a loud open invitation for your degree of discretion (and every other captains) to be formally reassessed and possibly curtailed by insisting blindly that your powers make it impossible for any way you treat pax to be deemed unreasonable.
If you were to treat people, within the rules and without exceeding your authority, in a manner which appalled the Senate Committee with responsibility for transport, do you really imagine that they would regard the existence of those rules and that authority as the end of the matter?
If you were to treat people, within the rules and without exceeding your authority, in a manner which appalled the Senate Committee with responsibility for transport, do you really imagine that they would regard the existence of those rules and that authority as the end of the matter?
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There must be a limit on how far you can go. As for West Coast, I hope I am never on an aircraft that he is flying. The captain might have the final say whilst in the air, when in the ground the final say is your employer and the owner of the aircraft. They failed this time and although many of you blame the captain the airline is ultimately to blame.
Re all the comments about Captains,( this site used to be about 50% Captains posting....feels like about 2% now) I think there will be a lesson that current Airline Captains can take from this once a factual report is released and it will be thus;
Although ground staff and Police are usually quite good at their jobs, if a passenger is to be removed the Captain should hold a two minute meeting with those involved to set expectations about how the removal will be conducted and set a clear expectation that another meeting will be held prior to using any form of physical coercion.
I imagine the Captain involved just assumed everyone would do their job in a professional manner and it didn't turn out that way.
Although ground staff and Police are usually quite good at their jobs, if a passenger is to be removed the Captain should hold a two minute meeting with those involved to set expectations about how the removal will be conducted and set a clear expectation that another meeting will be held prior to using any form of physical coercion.
I imagine the Captain involved just assumed everyone would do their job in a professional manner and it didn't turn out that way.