Are the United Flights now - all day time (no redeye)

[DustyC]

Well I only know what I have heard from people on the flight and watched the video. Your story is not the same as the story being shown on CNN or what is being talked about on Facebook..

Jim...

I bet the also aren't telling you that years ago the guy was trading oxycontin for sex. Elizabethtown Doctor Indicted On 98 Drug Charges

The media is very rarely interested in conveying ALL facts

 

[oldschoolto]

What does what he did years ago have to do with the airplane ? Or should we be branded for life for things in the past.. Now if he was trying to bang the stewardess for oxycodone.. Then I would say it was part of the story..

Jim

 

[scubafanatic]

The very concept of the 'redeye' to Bonaire was a bonehead idea in the first place, good riddance!

 

[tursiops]

The very concept of the 'redeye' to Bonaire was a bonehead idea in the first place, good riddance!

Not so. It made flying from the west coast much easier.

 

[diver_girl_tn]

The exact same thing. And they've all done it. United is average as far as bumps go. The story the public is seeing from Chicago is incomplete.

Exactly. They all overbook and bump passengers onto other flights. This case just was handled really, really badly. But regardless, I still continue flying with United. And in case of this particular flight, I would have been happy to take the money, a hotel night & dinner and fly next day..... oh well, interesting to see how it all gets settled with lawyers.

 

[BDSC]

He agreed to give up his seat if asked. Everyone that flies agrees to that. He left the plane. Then he got stupid and ran back onto the plane and was only then forcibly removed. United could have planned ahead better, but this guy was not only in violation of his contract, but of federal law. Like it or not, he has no case. United may settle, but when aircrew tells you to get off the plane you get off the plane. No other option exists.

Not sure where you got that story from but it doesn't match up with the video and what the witnesses told. He was FIRST forcibly removed from the plane.

 

[jorgie6]

Remember the good ole days before Continental got bought out by United.... now they "move YOUR tail for you!"

 

[flyboy08]

This will cost at least one job and in my best guess.....250-500k in damages to the passenger!

What a complete FU on the part of United!

 

[MikeT73]

United could have planned ahead better, but this guy was not only in violation of his contract, but of federal law. Like it or not, he has no case. United may settle, but when aircrew tells you to get off the plane you get off the plane. No other option exists.

When you run a for-profit business, corporate policy and customer service occasionally have to come to a compromise. The string of poor decisions by United was inexcusable.

 

[Kharon]

I tried both JFK & Newark and found I didn't like the drive. This time I'm flying Delta out of Albany, NY (very near my home) through Atlanta - leave 6:15am arrive Bonaire 1:49pm. United from Newark goes first to Huston then to Bonaire - way too much time in the air and doesn't get to Bonaire till evening.

Return trip, I'm flying United direct to Newark, staying overnight and then a short flight to Albany the next morning. I'm using some United miles from Bonaire to Newark but doing it this way is more expensive (around $800) but well worth it for the convienence.

Out of Newark/NYC I always got to Bonaire for around $500-$600 round trip. Once I flew Jet Blue out of Rochester to Aruba then puddle jumped to Bonaire and back. Another time I flew through Curacao and stayed there overnight before a puddle jump. Neither was very sattisfactory and was about $100 more.