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pinky0926 posted...

This airline however tried to cheap out on the problem and now has an incredible PR disaster on their hands. Whoever organised this f*** up needs to be out of a job.

Airline culture has a a clear issue, and especially United's, but airline culture in general right now is down right scary, it's almost like if passengers were considered the enemy.

The fact that overbooking flights on purpose is part of their business model is very fucked up. But that's the least of the issues. Flight attendants and other airline personnel have so much power it's not even funny. I'v read so many stories where a passenger pisses off a flight attendant so she simply calls the cops on some poor soul who ends roughed up, humilliated and kicked off the plane.

Do you remember that United story where a girl was kicked off the plane for wearing yoga pants?

I also read a story where some italian professor teaching at an Ivy League was solving equations before take off, and a MAGA-type flirted with him and he wasn't receptive, so he "clearly" must be up to no good, and "that weird language" (mathematical equations) must be some middle eastern evil language so.... she proceeded to call the flight attendants on him, who called the cops on him, who kicked him off the flight and held him up as a suspect for hours.

Now turns out you can buy you plane seat, have a flight not be oversold, and if some employee wants to give a ride to a co-worker or a buddy or something they can totally kick you off the plane and call the cops on you and have them bloody up your face, it's terrifying. At this point ordering extra sugar on one's coffee might put that person in Gitmo.

Lowly flight attendants and airline personnel are becoming judge, jury and executioner, it's insane.
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