Originally Posted by
PushingTin
I still want to know why the 4 crew members showed up after boarding and demanded to be on the flight? Did they show up late, did ops send them that late. That may be the most embarrassing part of the whole story.
The situation has been posted in detail, but I'll summarize. There was an issue elsewhere with the Trans States operation that required a last-minute crew deadhead to SDF in order to maintain scheduled operations the next day ex-SDF. Not at all unusual or "embarrassing". It's simply good operations to have the crew available to fly the deadhead and keep everyone on time. Now because of one selfish traveler, UA is overreacting and making it more likely that flights will be adversely affected by crew availability.
Originally Posted by
robinhood
I agree. Perhaps I should be wearing a tinfoil hat for this, but I do think it is very suspicious that while everyone else is focusing on IDB compensation, United's first policy change (that we know of) is the 60 minute restriction on booking crew travel. There must be something very inappropriate about how this was done that they would focus on this even before adjusting their VDB compensation guidelines.
You have the tin foil on tightly.