Originally Posted by
lalalandMCI
This happened on a flight maybe 8 months ago or so out of MCI, it wash;t my flight thankfully. I was headed to IAH and the ORD flight next door was boarding and then all of the sudden de-planed. I was curious what happened, so I asked a passenger who I was sitting next to earlier and she said a passenger shoved their bag into the bin and it broke. I guess the passenger was shoving so hard that the bin came off its mounts, and the flight canceled. That is an ouch.
That's a very big ouch!
At least in my case, the flight flew-tho it appears it flew empty with only crew
Originally Posted by
aacharya
Umm....this isn't consequential. The pax broke the bin. What UA doesn't get is the "loss of plane" damages - like what rental car agencies try to do.
Or the cost of re-booking some of the pax on other carriers CLT-EWR so they wouldn't miss their int'l conx