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Old Apr 12, 17, 3:13 pm
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United Airlines to refund fares to all Flight 3411 passengers
And it's a crawling start........


"United to refund ticket cost to Flight 3411 passengers"

Wednesday, April 12th 2017, 3:27 pm EDT

http://www.wave3.com/story/35135187/...411-passengers
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Old Apr 12, 17, 6:07 pm
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From AP:

United says passengers on United Express Flight 3411 are getting compensation equal to the cost of their tickets.

United spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said Wednesday that the passengers can take the compensation in cash, travel credits or miles.
https://apnews.com/a38f093ca6304faf9...ane-passengers
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Old Apr 12, 17, 7:51 pm
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United Airlines to refund fares to all Flight 3411 passengers
https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...ers/100384450/
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Old Apr 12, 17, 7:56 pm
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Which should have been announced by about 9 a.m. Monday morning.
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Originally Posted by Kacee View Post
Which should have been announced by about 9 a.m. Monday morning.


Too little, too late. By the way, are they getting credit vouchers or cash back?
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Probably with many restrictions if a voucher. It should be all cash and from the departure point not ORD.
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will they still get PQD?
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Old Apr 12, 17, 10:23 pm
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Originally Posted by naumank View Post


Too little, too late. By the way, are they getting credit vouchers or cash back?
Seriously, UA has no common sense
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Old Apr 12, 17, 11:58 pm
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Originally Posted by fly747first View Post
Seriously, UA has no common sense
Took three days of internet and media bashing worldwide for them to get to this point. This would have been more sincere if it had done sooner, but now it they are just trying to save face. Damage is already done, and it's going to take a lot of service interaction improvements for people to regain their trust.
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Originally Posted by riphamilton View Post
will they still get PQD?
yes
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Old Apr 13, 17, 12:24 am
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Originally Posted by naumank View Post


Too little, too late. By the way, are they getting credit vouchers or cash back?
Yea...I imagine it might be like this.....

'Here's a voucher for the 10 bucks we arbitrarily assigned to the ORD-SDF segment of your 950 dollar RT to wherever you were really flying. Now please don't talk to the media anymore or cooperate with the lawsuit"

LOL.
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Old Apr 13, 17, 12:37 am
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Should have happened on Oscar's first backfired public announcement.
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Old Apr 13, 17, 1:23 am
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In a future lawsuit these pass may be called as witnesses.
Smart move UA!
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This better not be a sneaky way for United to get out of a class action. "Damages? Oh sorry, you've already accepted the refund and by doing so released all your claims (in the fine print)."
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This better not be a sneaky way for United to get out of a class action. "Damages? Oh sorry, you've already accepted the refund and by doing so released all your claims (in the fine print)."
Not that doing so might not succeed, but the problem with trying that would be this: If they just "auto-refund" the pax to their CCs the pax would be able to counter that they never consented to recieve the refund or consciously gave any consideration to United for the refund and that under the law there was no contract, only a gift.
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