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Police violently drag man from United plane after airline overbooked flight

9 点作者 yoran大约 8 年前

3 条评论

futun大约 8 年前
At first they offered $400 for volunteers.<p>Then they offered $800 for volunteers.<p>Then when they still had no volunteers they randomly selected some people using (supposed) computerized random selection.<p>When one of those randomly selected people refused, they beat him, and dragged him bleeding, off the plane.<p>Apparently $800 was their limit. After the limit is reached they roll in the muscle and beat you up if you don&#x27;t comply.<p>I smell a hilariously large payout for this poor guy sometime soon. This is a PR disaster for United.
criddell大约 8 年前
This story will probably get flagged and removed, but I think it&#x27;s worth discussing.<p>Apparently United offered only $800 for that seat. As I understand it, they needed it to reposition crew so it was obviously worth a <i>lot</i> more than that to them.<p>I think there should be better consumer protection laws for situations like this. If United wants to oversell a flight there should be actual consequences for them besides some ridiculously low payment to customers for breaking their side of the deal. They should have to do something like a reverse auction.
ColinWright大约 8 年前
Discussion: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14079837" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=14079837</a>