Earlier today, footage of a United passenger being forcibly removed from an overbooked flight went viral on social media. This is awful folks …
https://twitter.com/Canine_Rights/status/851472293985374209
Is he bleeding?!
#flythefriendlyskies my husband was on that flight. Screw you United!! @united pic.twitter.com/4EcxrMy5jZ
— Kaylyn Davis (@kaylyn_davis) April 10, 2017
When confronted with this footage, United didn’t appear to be all that sympathetic to the man they dragged off a flight:
Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked. After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave ^MD
— United Airlines (@united) April 10, 2017
Dragging someone off a plane is how you ask them to volunteer when you’ve overbooked a flight? Hrm.
the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate. ^MD
— United Airlines (@united) April 10, 2017
Huh. Law enforcement. Their definition of voluntary is a little different from ours.
United did release a statement when basically the WORLD reacted to this footage:
United CEO response to United Express Flight 3411. pic.twitter.com/rF5gNIvVd0
— United Airlines (@united) April 10, 2017
Gosh, we can sorta see what happened from the footage. Just sayin’.
Twitter responded … hilariously:
Man, this United story just gets worse and worse. pic.twitter.com/VhDcBT2NY0
— Calm Tomb (@CalmTomb) April 10, 2017
This woman also refused to give up her seat on @united pic.twitter.com/lT67LeMxVE
— Alamo Drafthouse NYC (@AlamoNYC) April 10, 2017
Hot take: "United removed that passenger the same way GOP removed Garland from his SCOTUS seat."
— Holden (@Holden114) April 10, 2017
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They get wander-knocked the fuck out? https://t.co/H4WPsvYg5I
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 10, 2017
This is so fucked up. I am NEVER flying @united again, unless they are the cheapest flight available, or have the most convenient times https://t.co/PlWl0M5yl2
— Dan Amira (@DanAmira) April 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/851429609631604736
You took the money and the bastard refused to give up the seat he paid for. Don't customers realize you're their Overlord? https://t.co/27oFUvuwzW
— Scott Greenfield (@ScottGreenfield) April 10, 2017
https://twitter.com/MarkWBennett/status/851427122161664005
Watched a video of it. It seems this is how they get "volunteers" pic.twitter.com/RXW4NwJDVF
— Jon (@faroutmadman) April 10, 2017
Update:
BREAKING: Chicago aviation department says officer involved in dragging man off United flight placed on leave.
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 10, 2017
Update:
Statement from the Department of Transportation on the @united airlines incident: pic.twitter.com/HDFFj8Jp7F
— Ryan Ruggiero (@RyanRuggiero) April 10, 2017
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