Security Drags Man Off Overbooked United Flight After He Refuses to Give Up His Seat William Turton - Gizmodo
go to original April 11, 2017

Jimmy Kimmel Proposes a New United Airlines Slogan: “F**k You” (Jimmy Kimmel Live)

Update: United Airlines' CEO Is Offering a New Mea Culpa Amid the Global Uproar (CNN)

On Sunday, a man was forcibly dragged off a United flight headed from Chicago to Louisville after he refused to give up his seat to a United employee who “needed to be in Louisville” for a flight the following day, The Courier-Journal reports.



Passenger Audra Bridges, who uploaded a video of the incident to Facebook, told the newspaper that United initially offered customers $400 and a hotel room if they offered to take a flight the next day at 3pm. Nobody chose to give up the seat that they paid for, so United upped the ante to $800 after passengers boarded, announcing that the flight would not leave until four stand-by United employees had seats. After there were still no takers, a manager allegedly told passengers that a computer would select four passengers to be kicked off the flight.

The man in the video apparently claimed to be a doctor who had appointments with patients the next morning. After he refused to give up his seat, Bridges says a security official threw him “against the armrest before dragging him out of the plane.” According to Bridges, the seemingly disoriented man came back onto the plane with blood on his face and the crew asked passengers to go back to the gate so that United crew could “tidy up” the plane.

The flight eventually left two hours after its scheduled departure.

...In the world of contemporary capitalism, just expecting to receive the services you paid for is often too much to ask. And if you don’t want to be complicit in United’s (and other airline’s) scheme of overbooking flights to squeeze every penny possible, you could be forcibly dragged off a plane while other passengers look on in horror.

Read the rest at Gizmodo

Related: Call The United Incident What It Is: Police Violence (The Huffington Post)

Related: The Video of a United Passenger Being Dragged Off a Flight Raises 3 Big Questions (Upworthy)

We invite you to add your charity or supporting organizations' news stories and coming events to PVAngels so we can share them with the world. Do it now!