Originally Posted by
Kacee
The FTC has no jurisdiction over air carriers.
And good luck bringing a lawsuit on the ground that UA swapped you from one version of the 772 to another.
Yes - you're right - the FTC does not have oversight with airlines (which is why I added "/courts" - it was a general statement about one sided contracts overruling fair business practice). And obviously yes, you're right that there is no way one would bring a suit over such a change - my point was that if it was a systemic practice (i.e., happened regularly and willfully) then there would be a case regardless of what the contract of carriage said. I was not at all trying to claim that I would go and file a complaint - I was responding to pull{ing} out the CoC in response to me saying that I felt like it was false advertising.
There is no way for you to know that unless you have access to internal UA data.
Yes, although based on the ORD-HNL route, it is clear they are massively overbooking Y knowing that they can pull in the v5 if required.
Originally Posted by
findark
I think it's perfectly reasonably to overbook Y by 20 in case of a ~55% and growing chance of 77G swap. It's a much larger cabin to shuffle things around in, and generally speaking you don't get angry pax from VDBing a few people the way you do if you downgrade paid F.
Fair point. It's intentional by United and probably their best move to maintain fleet flexibility. Still, doesn't change the fact that it annoys me to no end.
