United is having a terrible PR week. Last week it was girls’ dress codes. This week, hauling off passengers (this one a doctor).
What’s worse: they did it so that United Employees could have the seat he paid for.
United: if you needed those seats so badly, you should have paid more for people to take them. This one video will cost you millions more in bad publicity.
Tyler Bridges on Twitter
@united @FoxNews @CNN not a good way to treat a Doctor trying to get to work because they overbooked https://t.co/sj9oHk94Ik
A United Airlines passenger was pulled out of his seat and dragged along the aisle floor after the airline overbooked a flight from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky.
Sunday’s incident was shared online by fellow passengers who said the airline randomly selected customers to give up their seats and get off the plane so its own personnel could make it to work the next day.
Footage from the scene shows a man being forcibly removed from his seat by three police officers and dragged off the flight. The man refused to leave as he was a doctor and needed to be work at a hospital the next morning, according to passengers who uploaded videos.
Jayse D. Anspach on Twitter
@United overbook #flight3411 and decided to force random passengers off the plane. Here’s how they did it: https://t.co/QfefM8X2cW
Jayse D. Anspach on Twitter
@WHAS11 #United overbooked and wanted 4 of us to volunteer to give up our seats for personnel that needed to be at work the next day.
United Airlines confirmed to WHAS11 that the flight was overbooked and law enforcement was asked to assist after a customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily.
“We apologize for the overbook situation. Further details on the removed customer should be directed to authorities,” a spokesperson from the airline said in a statement to the Courier-Journal.
Passenger Audra D. Bridges told the Courier-Journal that the airline asked for one volunteer to give up their seat at the gate. However, after boarding, airline staff then asked for four more people to hand over their seats to United employees that needed to be in Louisville on Monday for a flight.
The company reportedly offered $800 compensation and a hotel stay but, after no-one took up the offer, they used a computer to randomly select passengers to remove.
Bridges claimed that the man booted off the flight came back on the plane with a bloody face and received medical assistance on board while fellow passengers were sent back to the gate so officials could “tidy up” before take off. The flight was delayed two hours as a result.
Tyler Bridges on Twitter
@united @CNN @FoxNews @WHAS11 Man forcibly removed from plane somehow gets back on still bloody from being removed https://t.co/njS3nC0pDl
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