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[jbond007]

Another video today shows him refusing to leave his seat, saying he has to be at work tomorrow, threatening to sue United and trying to make a phone call to complain.

He then says he has to go home and he'd rather go to jail & they'll have to drag him off the plane.

All very calm.

Then they beat him up.

Nice.

The question is, how much is he going to win?

Looks like every passenger on that flight is going to get their ticket cost refunded. I expect the doc will probably get a bit more than that, and probably a year's worth of free flights as long as he keeps mum and doesn't take this further. Probably a good deal.

[MarillionFan]

Another video today shows him refusing to leave his seat, saying he has to be at work tomorrow, threatening to sue United and trying to make a phone call to complain.

He then says he has to go home and he'd rather go to jail & they'll have to drag him off the plane.

All very calm.

Then they beat him up.

Nice.

The question is, how much is he going to win?

[Mordac]

seems a few people don't like him.

United passenger traded drugs for gay sex with patient | Daily Mail Online



interesting :

So, it's OK to beat up gay people, even if they've paid for a ticket. Really, this isn't making a PR clustershag better, if anything, it's making it a teeny bit worse. If they somehow knew he was gay, they've lost the pink dollar for the rest of eternity, and if they didn't know he was gay, they've dragged his gay past up to deflect from their own utter crapness. Doesn't really look good either way, does it? Couldn't happen to a more deserving wunch of bankers. It's the poor bastards in their PR department I feel sorry for. Still, at least they get free flights, and a get-out-of-a-beating free card.

[vetran]

Some nice Internet responses from competitors etc. Not all SFW.

10+ Of The Funniest Reactions To United Airlines Violently Dragging A Man Off A Plane (Add Yours) | Bored Panda

[SueEllen]

seems a few people don't like him.

United passenger traded drugs for gay sex with patient | Daily Mail Online



interesting :

So United are now digging dirt up on him to save their f*** up.

The best thing they could do is be silent so other events put them out of the news.

[barrydidit]

That's brilliant. Just goes to show one's 15 minutes will swiftly turn into a lifetime of shame and ridicule in the modern age.

[vetran]

seems a few people don't like him.

United passenger traded drugs for gay sex with patient | Daily Mail Online

Doctor dragged off United flight was felon who traded prescription drugs for secret gay sex with patient half his age and took them himself - and he needed anger management, was 'not forthright' and had control issues, psychiatrist found
Dr David Dao's troubled medical past is revealed in court documents
His wife Teresa - also a doctor - reported him to medical authorities and his secret inappropriate gay relationship with a patient was revealed
Father of five, 69, was convicted of a felony - but avoided prison time - because he was giving the man prescription drugs in return for gay sex
He denied the gay sex even though he was caught on camera shirtless and in his pants with Brian Case, his lover, 26, who was a fellow worshiper at his church
Case said he believed that Dao wanted to hook him on prescription narcotics including Oxycontin so he would keep coming to him for gay sex
Psychiatrist found Vietnamese-born doctor had series of issues and one doctor wrote that he 'he would unilaterally chose to do his own thing'
He only got his licence back after agreeing to be drug tested and polygraphed
United are facing a furious backlash and boycott calls over the video; their stock price plunged as Wall Street reacted to passenger fury
DailyMail.com also reveals that the airline told staff he had 'tried to strike law enforcement' - despite no evidence for that on the video

interesting :

DailyMail.com also reveals that the airline told staff he had 'tried to strike law enforcement' - despite no evidence for that on the video

[MrMarkyMark]

I wonder if he'd done the same had the story not gone viral across the internet and late-night talk shows. What's the betting UA will ban camera phones in the cabin (on security grounds, natch) in case they "don't fix what's broken so this never happens again" ?

I believe the $1 Billion knocked off the share price helped

[Mordac]

Now he seems to have changed tack, I wonder why





https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...al-controversy

I wonder if he'd done the same had the story not gone viral across the internet and late-night talk shows. What's the betting UA will ban camera phones in the cabin (on security grounds, natch) in case they "don't fix what's broken so this never happens again" ?

[MrMarkyMark]

Indeed. I suspect he, without thinking too deeply about it, adopted his normal "Tell them to fukk off" attitude, and went out to play golf. Very enjoyable stuff.

Now he seems to have changed tack, I wonder why

Nearly $1bn of the company’s value was erased in trading on Tuesday. Later that day, Munoz said he was committed to “fix what’s broken so this never happens again”. He pledged to review the company’s policies for seeking volunteers to give up their seats, for handling oversold flights and for partnering with airport authorities and local law enforcement.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...al-controversy

[barrydidit]

Looks like United Airlines CEO still has plenty of spade work to complete on the hole




https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...er-belligerent

Indeed. I suspect he, without thinking too deeply about it, adopted his normal "Tell them to fukk off" attitude, and went out to play golf. Very enjoyable stuff.

[MrMarkyMark]

Looks like United Airlines CEO still has plenty of spade work to complete on the hole

The chief executive of United Airlines has described the passenger who was forcibly removed from an overbooked plane as “disruptive and belligerent”, and told the airline’s employees that they “followed established procedures”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...er-belligerent

[MarillionFan]

[SueEllen]

From the Fail:


So they didn't even had to charter a plane, just make their employees take a cab or a rental and pay them overtime for the effort.

Far better to get an elderly passenger beaten up, get a police man suspended for doing the beatings, and to look like a company with managers who can't arrange a piss up in a brewery. After all, all publicity is good publicity.....

[sal]

Outrageous. If they had 3 airline crew who needed to be at SFO the next day then they (United) should charter their own private jet to get them there without interfering with a plane full of paying customers. They're an airline FFS, it's not they don't have planes or anything.

How the F does it become the passenger's problem that the airline is too incompetent to ensure correct numbers of people on board their own planes?

The flight was to Louisville, which according to my fairly basic US geography is nowhere near SFO. The likelihood of the crew being able to take a flight (any flight - most airlines have reciprocal arrangement re. crew movements) to SFO from Chicago is surely better than getting one from Louisville. The more one reads on this, the more stupid and incompetent United appear.

From the Fail:

Louisville is a four-and-a-half hour, 300 mile drive from Chicago.

So they didn't even had to charter a plane, just make their employees take a cab or a rental and pay them overtime for the effort.