United Airlines ( UAL)

[beerntrading]

Come to think of it, is UA's flight REALLY THAT cheaper than other airline companies? I haven't been taking their flights for a while but really how much do you really save on a UA flight vs with another airline? $1? $20, $50? Is the $ saved with the UA flight REALLY that worth it to suffer through all these substandard level of service? To have yourself forcefully dragged off a plane? To have your pet die when you have already taken all the precaution to properly secure it? Is air flight REALLY that much better and irreplaceable vs. a train ride or a car trip or video conferencing even? I think these would be the questions that more and more people would be asking in light of all these events.

I pretty much accept the crap and deal with it. At least when I usually fly (Frontier) there's no pretext that I'm getting nothing more than what they allege to be a "seat" (nearer metal bars and nylon straps in my book).

And I would never fly with pets purely because there's an inherent gap on what pets mean to me and what my pets mean to others.

It is different if you are ET and travel first class to overseas destinations.

...it's like being the foreman with an office above the kill line, isn't it?

 

[Maverick74]

http://www.tmz.com/2018/03/14/united-airlines-dead-dog-damages-overhead/

Keep shorting this stock down to zero. There is no other airline on earth that has as bad as customer service as this airline. It's only a matter of time...

 

[beerntrading]

http://www.tmz.com/2018/03/14/united-airlines-dead-dog-damages-overhead/

Keep shorting this stock down to zero. There is no other airline on earth that has as bad as customer service as this airline. It's only a matter of time...

Yeah, United does not have hubs in good places for that (America's sewer, notwithstanding). Colorado and California both have additional protections over and above the "actual cash value" of a pet...other states are following suit.

 

[beerntrading]

Seriously, don't let your pets fly United:

United mistakenly flies Kansas-bound dog to Japan

 

[vanzandt]

Yeah, United does not have hubs in good places for that (America's sewer, notwithstanding). Colorado and California both have additional protections over and above the "actual cash value" of a pet...other states are following suit.

Well... they f'd up again.
They shipped some family's German Sheppard to Japan and instead gave them a Great Dane.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-mistakenly-flies-kansas-bound-german-shepherd-to-japan/

 

[beerntrading]

Well... they f'd up again.
They shipped some family's German Sheppard to Japan and instead gave them a Great Dane.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/united-airlines-mistakenly-flies-kansas-bound-german-shepherd-to-japan/

I beat you by seconds on that one.

 

[JSOP]

http://www.tmz.com/2018/03/14/united-airlines-dead-dog-damages-overhead/

Keep shorting this stock down to zero. There is no other airline on earth that has as bad as customer service as this airline. It's only a matter of time...

Oh you are kidding me. They killed that dog and they thought to just the passenger a ticket refund??!! They are looking at AT LEAST a Negligence lawsuit on top of what that Illinois law stipulates. Perhaps the same lawyer who represented Dr. Dao would represent this dog owner as well. LOL

 

[JSOP]

That bad a$$ lawyer that Dr. Dao hired just spoke up: The family of that dog should be significantly compensated because they were put up to it because of their fear of consequences of non-compliance of stewardess' commands. Uh oh...not good for United. Its stock has already dropped 1+% in today's trading:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/l...e-for-death-of-dog-in-overhead-bin-2018-03-14

Looks like another lawsuit that the lawyer is preparing...

 

[JSOP]

And the stewardess has the gull to claim that she didn't hear the passenger who told her repeatedly it's a dog that is in the carrier that she was not aware that it's a dog that she has instructed to be placed in overhead bin.

http://www.tmz.com/2018/03/14/united-airlines-dead-dog-new-pet-carrier-tags-kokito-dies/

OMG!! How do United Airlines train their crews??!! They should work as prison guards. LOL

 

[beerntrading]

And the stewardess has the gull to claim that she didn't hear the passenger who told her repeatedly it's a dog that is in the carrier that she was not aware that it's a dog that she has instructed to be placed in overhead bin.

Read, speak, and understand English is a absolute and explicit FAA regulation for all air crew. Sounds like it's time for dismissal if passengers heard but the crew did not.