OT A Man Was Dragged Off A United Plane After The Airline Overbooked The Flight

United screwed the pooch on this one. You don't remove paying customers just because you want to send some employees for free....it wasn't even an overbook situation really. It was a the plane was fully booked, and they chose afterwards to board four employees for a free ride, so they offered money for people to give up their seats, and no one wanted to give up their seat, so they were fucked situation.
You don't forcibally remove a paying customer who has done nothing wrong from the plane. Bullshit bullshit bullshit.
And, you don't pick random people to be removed after the decline your offer, you put your employees on the next flight, or put them in the fucking cargo hold

 

I am reminded of Shirley Jackson's, ' The Lottery'

 

"Randomly"

 

So now every time we board a plane, besides the thoughts that it might crash or get hijacked, now we have to worry about possibly getting dragged off because we paid for a ticket and would like to keep our seat...

#friendlyskies

 

Or to place their employees in the overhead luggage compartments

 

One report is saying that the people "the computer" selected to remove were the ones who had paid the cheapest for their tickets. That's because once removed the airline would have to pay them four times their ticket price.

I can't wait to read the police reports for this. I'm guessing that the flight crew didn't tell the police the real reason they wanted the doctor and his wife off the plane.

And if the flight crew was honest then shame on the police.