On 4/12/2017 12:05 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 4/12/17 11:51 AM, Its Me wrote:
On Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 11:08:29 AM UTC-4, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 4/12/2017 10:48 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 4/12/17 10:44 AM, Its Me wrote:
On Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 10:31:41 AM UTC-4, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 4/12/17 10:23 AM, Its Me wrote:
On Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 10:13:36 AM UTC-4, Keyser Soze
wrote:
On 4/12/17 9:55 AM, Tim wrote:

8:46 AMKeyser Söze
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Politically speaking, right is wrong.


Harry Is that why you live and love politics so much?

I neither live nor love politics so much.

Yet you make nothing but political posts here. Several a day.

You are in deep denial.


Several a day, and I may spend up to 30 seconds on each. I'm awake at
least 16 hours a day, so obviously the time I spend here making
political posts is of no consequence.

Oh, and your premise - make nothing but political posts - is wrong.

Yeah, you're right. You did make one anti-corporate post today, and
many of your posts are anti-religion or just juvenile name calling.

I stand corrected. You post nothing but asshole remarks designed to
get attention.





I was hoping someone here would start a pro-corporate post extolling
the
virtues of dragging someone who paid for his ticket off a plane so the
corporation could fly a crew to another city.

Why would you do that?
What makes you think non-progressive liberals would automatically side
with corporate United Airlines? He's a jerk and he now realizes it's
going to be very costly to his airline and stockholders.

It's not unusual to get bumped from a flight. It happens all the
time, and across all airlines. United kept increasing the
compensation offer to the passengers, but didn't get the volunteers
needed.

Where things went sideways is when the passenger got belligerent and
the (non-United) security guys overreacted.

The CEO certainly could have handled it better. He's learning a
lesson the hard way.


Usually the "bumping" is done in the terminal, before the plane is
boarded. I certainly hope there is a huge lawsuit and settlement.


I agree with you. (gasp) Back when I did a lot of flying I can only
remember one time when a request was made to give up a seat for some
kind of compensation *after* all the passengers were seated. I remember
many times the request being made in the terminal before boarding.

It's up to the airlines to properly manage their business. I can
understand occasional over-booking but forcing a paying customer to give
up a seat to make room for employees of the airline is wrong.
I don't care what the fine print in the ticket agreement says and I
suspect neither will a judge if he sues.