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I will come out and say it because many people have already said it: United Airlines is a piece of garbage. People are literally riding a dumpster with wings.
Just a few weeks after United Airlines got backlash after they refused to let two young girls on a flight because they were wearing leggings, this terrible airline is back in the news for another negative reason. After United Airlines overbooked a flight, (it boggles my mind that a million dollar company can’t properly book a flight), the airline asked for four volunteers to leave the plane and be put on another flight the next day. Three people volunteered for some reason, but after no one else volunteered the airline chose someone at random, and that’s when things flew off the handle.
The incident, which occurred on a flight that was set to go from Chicago to Louisville, was caught on tape and shows a man, who is a doctor, refusing to get off the plane because he had to be at the hospital the next day. Well, this is the shit that went down. Take a look at it below thanks to Tyler Bridges.
@united @FoxNews @CNN not a good way to treat a Doctor trying to get to work because they overbooked pic.twitter.com/sj9oHk94Ik
— Tyler Bridges (@Tyler_Bridges) April 9, 2017
Well that’s awful.
A witness, Jayse Anspach, described the events on his Twitter.
@WHAS11 The doctor needed to work at the hospital the next day, so he refused to “volunteer.” @United decided to use force on doctor.
— Jayse D. Anspach (@JayseDavid) April 10, 2017
@WHAS11 A couple air port security men forcefully pulled the doctor out of his chair and to the floor of the aisle.
— Jayse D. Anspach (@JayseDavid) April 10, 2017
@WHAS11 In so doing, the doctor’s face was slammed against an arm rest, causing serious bleeding from his mouth.
— Jayse D. Anspach (@JayseDavid) April 10, 2017
@WHAS11 It looked like he was knocked out, because he went limp and quiet and they dragged him out of the plane like a rag doll.
— Jayse D. Anspach (@JayseDavid) April 10, 2017
@WHAS11 10mins later, the doctor runs back into the plane with a bloody face, clings to a post in the back, chanting, “I need to go home.”
— Jayse D. Anspach (@JayseDavid) April 10, 2017
And here’s that video:
@united @CNN @FoxNews @WHAS11 Man forcibly removed from plane somehow gets back on still bloody from being removed pic.twitter.com/njS3nC0pDl
— Tyler Bridges (@Tyler_Bridges) April 10, 2017
And here’s the useless statement from United Airlines:
“Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked. After our team looked for volunteers, one customer refused to leave the aircraft voluntarily and law enforcement was asked to come to the gate. We apologize for the overbook situation.”
Oh, I get it. If you pay for a seat, and refuse to leave the flight you’ll get a busted lip.
Thanks, United Airlines.
No word yet on how the doctor is doing.
h/t Distractify
