United Airlines PR fiasco - police forcibly remove man from overbooked flight
04-10-2017, 04:42 PM
"ACSHUALLY, it says so in the fine print!" is a really bad way of arguing a policy.
Most of us would take the money and just fly on the next day. But just imagine that you had a REALLY fucking important flight and you had to take it ON THAT DAY ONLY: a parent's funeral, some ridiculously profitable business deal you're about to sign, there's a vacation cruise liner waiting for you on the other end of the flight that cost more than the compensation the airline is offering you etc. etc.... those are some situations where you'd probably say "fuck you and your compensation, I need to take THIS flight only!" and it's ridiculous to allow the airlines to weasel out of it by saying "woops it was in the contract lol"
Most of us would take the money and just fly on the next day. But just imagine that you had a REALLY fucking important flight and you had to take it ON THAT DAY ONLY: a parent's funeral, some ridiculously profitable business deal you're about to sign, there's a vacation cruise liner waiting for you on the other end of the flight that cost more than the compensation the airline is offering you etc. etc.... those are some situations where you'd probably say "fuck you and your compensation, I need to take THIS flight only!" and it's ridiculous to allow the airlines to weasel out of it by saying "woops it was in the contract lol"