"Let's get it over with. Your United Airlines jokes." Topic

P90X – When you have to get strong fast, because you're going to jail, joining a gang or flying United.

Already posted the Jimmy Kimmel ad,so here's a real one--my favorite airline commercial:

youtu.be/vJCjSslQhco

United Airlines: We're here to sell seats and kick ass and we're all out of seats.

You can run but you can't fly.

United Airlines, board as a doctor, leave as a patient.

The first rule of United Club is….

Ah, the joys of flying, brought to new heights, in the enlightened 21st Century.

"Fly the friendly skies of United", OR NOT, depending upon the whims of the flight crew, pilot, copilot, ticket agent, CEO, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

Not sure which plummeted harder, the guy taken down by the cop on steroids (he should be tested for 'roid rage), and/or United's stock price.

United: When we run out of seatin' get ready for a beatin'.

United: Like we care. You're too cheap to actually act on your outrage.

The really amusing part is that the individual removed from the plane could face federal charges for refusing to obey the airline.

Initially, they were going to drag off the guy sitting next to the doctor, but he weighed like 400 pounds. So they grabbed the skinny dude instead…

This is great.

And, you only thought the baggage handlers were rough…….

On a positive note, appears tonight that all the cops in this assault and battery case have been suspended, and their actions are under review.

I think the young woman who was body-slammed by the cop is having her case against that law enforcement officer reviewed as well.

Perhaps they all had the same training officer, or watched the same video on how to deal with "trouble makers".

[Note – I'm very pro-police, but not when they get on a testosterone, or steroid infused rage, like we've seen in the last few days. Fortunately, cell phones are good at telling the other side of the story in these cases, which were no doubt previously, covered up, or denied outright.]

I used to travel with Continental regularly and they were great. Then they merged with United and the service really went downhill with seat bookings lost on a regular basis. Now I call them Untied because the whole thing is coming apart.

link

Apologies if you've already seen them.

link

@Super M
I did see some of those but I darn near fell out of my chair laughing when I saw the first one:

United: We put the hospital in hospitality.

Glorified "cattle cars" in the air.

Surprised they didn't use a cattle prod on him to press home the point.

Since I was born in the Pleistocene era, I remember the joys of flight, when female flight attendants and pilots, and the airlines, treated people courteously, and where flying was a nice, fun-filled adventure.

Got a set of fake wings, and even a free deck of cards, IIRC, when flying as a young pup, many eons ago, before they started reducing seat widths and leg room, and packing people in like sardines.

The world was a much more civilized place back then.

Now, if you don't get hauled off a jetliner, bloodied and bruised, or blown up in the air by some madman or woman, you count yourself lucky.

I suspect that's the message intended to be sent, to keep the rest of the cattle, and/or sheeple in line.

United, we've always had red eye flights and now we are introducing black eye flights

Fly the friendly skies, or else.

The really damning thing is the lie they were "overbooked", when in reality they just wanted to put their more important employees in those seats, instead of the paying customers they're supposed to be serving.

Apparently, they also never played musical chairs as children.

Once the seats are full, some people are "out", and removing seated ones to put others in their place certainly isn't going over too well with the American public.

Want to get a seat, get there early, but people should never be removed from a seat involuntarily, unless they are a danger to other passengers.

It's also happened on buses too,Greyhound for one.

United Airlines, still better customer service than the IRS.

Mako11 hit the nail on the head there. Not a case of "overbooking" to fill the plane.

They never even offered volunteers the full amount of ticket credit allowed – $1,300. USD Someone who didn't have patients to see the next day may have taken that carrot.

They always try to lowball the money to see if anyone bites.

If I wasn't in a rush, I'd certainly have taken 1300 bucks provided it was cash.

Correct, they low balled the passengers.

Should never have been done, but if it is that important to you, then make it worth people's effort. Full credit, hotel and meal vouchers!

I think Bagley did a good job.

link

How is there any excuse not to give a full refund to "bumped" passengers in this case?

The 'random' choice of passengers mainly means the ones who bought the cheapest seats because they are entitled to less compensation!

Glorified, flying aluminum cattle cars……….

I wish TWA was back in business.

(Did I actually say that?)

It is always a culture shock when I get off Qantas at LAX and get on an American domestic flight. Apart from anything else, when you see how dirty the cabins are, it's got to get you wondering about the mechanical maintenance.

If United airliners were propelled by oars, they'd have overseers whipping the passengers to row faster…