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OT: The News Thread

So...in order to get their four employees to a city that's a four-hour drive away, they delayed the plane for three-and-a-half hours, and offered up $3200 in cash plus one night's hotel accommodation for four people.

Like...how much money and time would they have saved if they'd just rented a limo for these employees?
 
MindzEye said:
Nope.

The staff weren't taking advantage of staff flights (the airline wouldn't bump for that), they were bumping because they had another delayed flight in the destination city they were trying to get a crew to. They were trying to get the crew there before they had a customer service issue.
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Union rules had to be a factor.
 
JohnnyHolmes said:
Union rules had to be a factor.
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Seems like a simple business decision. You have a flight in the destination city that needs a crew, you bump 4 passengers to accommodate the 4 crew members. It's easier/cheaper to pay out 3-4K to 4 passengers than it is to manage the butterfly effect of missed connections due to an extremely late, or potentially cancelled flight.

Have a hard time seeing how a Union rule would be a potential cause of this.
 
Apparently is was $800 United airlines dollars (ie only for use on the cost of a flight..................on United :nono)
 
flying to Chicago this summer - maybe I can get a deal with united now

I might get beat up but I will save a few bucks
 
So this is totally unrelated to what happened on the plane - United was 100% wrong in their handling of the matter.

But man is there ever a risk with having something go viral these days. Immediately the internet sleuths goto work and dig up positively ANYTHING ugly you might have in your past.

Apparently this guy has some GHOSTS. And now everyone knows.
 
Also, United's stock fell like 800M today after this story, so yeah, a few g's to bump people properly could have saved them an awful lot.

How they could ever feel that physically dragging a guy would not backfire on them...

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Apparently their CEO won PR Magazine's communicator of the year award, or something like that.

Might want to call 2nd place on that one.
 
corksens said:
So this is totally unrelated to what happened on the plane - United was 100% wrong in their handling of the matter.

But man is there ever a risk with having something go viral these days. Immediately the internet sleuths goto work and dig up positively ANYTHING ugly you might have in your past.

Apparently this guy has some GHOSTS. And now everyone knows.
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should help his lawyer
 
corksens said:
Apparently their CEO won PR Magazine's communicator of the year award, or something like that.

Might want to call 2nd place on that one.
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he was praising the employees

(I assume the employees were just following protocol of low balling, etc)

but that looks pretty bad on him
 
corksens said:
So this is totally unrelated to what happened on the plane - United was 100% wrong in their handling of the matter.

But man is there ever a risk with having something go viral these days. Immediately the internet sleuths goto work and dig up positively ANYTHING ugly you might have in your past.

Apparently this guy has some GHOSTS. And now everyone knows.
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that is true, everyone has skeletons, but they found them for this guy quickly, character assassination 101.

Has nothing to do with what happened but in Trump's America, who cares?
 
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