Originally Posted by
Gigantor
Based on Flight UA 3411 on Sunday, 9. April 2017
Official request made to LH/LX:
1. UA should be suspended from Star Alliance, effective immediately.
2. All codeshares with UA should be terminated, effective immediately.
This shall not be tolerated.
I will never board another UA aircraft.
This. I can't believe people actually disagree with this.
Sure there are various explanations but didnt Hitler also have his reasons? Slobodan? Come on, people where is the respect for another human being?
Some things to consider:
1. why was this particular man selected & forcibly removed? Not another?
2. forcibly removing a paying passenger in order to sit an employee for free is ok - why?
3. overbooking mishandling - all airlines overbook. When it is overbooked you do not end up ON the plane and IN a seat. This is how they avoid the situation we saw. Why is this not standard procedure at UAL?
4. Those saying he was offered $ - the man had appointments with patients & couldnt give up his seat. Couldnt the airline "reaccommodate" another pax sans the bodily harm?
Interestingly enough to discredit this man some local paper alleged he had a colourful background --which turned out to be false/mistaken identity.
Miles & More should, regardless, remove UAL from star alliance and add another airline to take it's place at least insofar as US flights are concerned.