I hope he gets a big payout. The airline shouldn't just start removing passengers because they're short staffed at another destination. I'm sure some people would have volunteered if they gave a big enough cash incentive.
what i was thinking. if they would put me on the next flight, no charge, first class or at least 1 step behind. PLUS compensate me for the trouble, i wouldnt mind. but im sure this wasnt the case here.
yeah, that article said it was ''unorthodox'' to wait until passengers were already seated. i tell you, these companies got their asses covered. they know no one reads that tiny shlt. and if were dont agree, we cant get on.
call me a poosey but im a lot like spock. if my actions arent going to make my situation any better, might as well make the best of the worse. get off and locate my options.
They can go up to $5000 for an international flight...$1350 for domestic. He was probably holding out for for the extra $550 but they wouldn't give it to him.
Pretty ****** how they handled it...they could have found a ****** on the flight and kicked him off for free by claiming he was a security risk.
Yeah, you can tell people were holding out for a better offer, the airlines are going to get sued for the way they handled the chinaman i never seen chit like this before on a plane against someone who didnt act a fool its almost unreal they grabbed old boy against his will and bloodied him up bad
what i was thinking. if they would put me on the next flight, no charge, first class or at least 1 step behind. PLUS compensate me for the trouble, i wouldnt mind. but im sure this wasnt the case here.
This happened to my boy last year. He went to Costa Rica for vacation and when he flew back they told him that they where overbooked and if he was willing to wait for the next available flight. He agreed and they gave him $1000 towards any flight for the future which he plans on using to travel to Japan later this year
Someone has dug up some nasty dirt on the guy removed from the plane:
"The United Airlines passenger who was hauled off an overbooked plane is a poker-playing doctor from Kentucky with a sordid past.
Dr. David Dao, 69, who was captured in a now-viral video being forcibly dragged off the Louisville-bound flight at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport on Sunday, was working as a doctor specializing in pulmonary disease in Elizabethtown when he was convicted of trading prescription drugs for ***ual favors.
According to documents filed with the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, Dao was arrested in 2003 on the drug-related offenses following an undercover investigation.
The board’s probe into the criminal charges found that Dao became ***ually interested in a male patient, Brian Case, whom he gave a physical examination to, including a genital examination, and whom he eventually made his office manager.
Case quit that job due to “inappropriate” remarks made by Dao, who then pursued him and arranged to give him prescription drugs in exchange for ***ual acts, according to the documents, filed last year.
In 2004, Dao was convicted on a slew of felony counts of obtaining drugs by fraud or deceit and was later placed on five years of supervised probation, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported."
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