Why flying in America keeps getting more miserable, explained
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2017 10:48 pm
by Kailuaboy
Why flying in America keeps getting more miserable, explained
The 40-year rise and fall of airline competition.
By Matthew Yglesias
April 12, 2017
Photo by Rick Kern/Getty Images for United Airlines
After what amounts to a decades-long series of disasters, the American aviation industry is finally in a good place. Overcapacity and fare
wars have been eliminated, redundant staff is gone, and with the economy improving, people are buying plane tickets again.
Which is exactly how United Airlines found itself dragging an unwilling customer off an overbooked flight to Louisville, Kentucky, incurring
a massive PR fiasco and reminding us that the industry is likely to bounce forever between exploitative and unprofitable.
This particular case resonated with the public because it was unusual and egregious — a sumptuous blend of a moderately rare edge case
doused with a hefty dose of poor judgment.
Re: Why flying in America keeps getting more miserable, explained
Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 2:43 pm
by Irse
I hate flying now days. Rather just stay in Hawaii.
Re: Why flying in America keeps getting more miserable, explained
Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 6:40 pm
by My3Cats
Me too.
Re: Why flying in America keeps getting more miserable, explained
Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 11:03 pm
by Kailuaboy
United Airlines Kicks Couple Off Plane En Route to Their Wedding
By Alex Eriksen
Yahoo Style
April 16, 2017
United Airlines had U.S. marshals escort bride and groom Amber Maxwell and Michael Hohl from a flight en-route to their wedding this weekend
(Photo: Getty Images)
It’s been a bad week for United Airlines. After a video of a passenger being violently removed from a plane by police went viral,
you’d think the airline would be trying to stay out of the headlines.
In the latest passenger-PR nightmare, a couple flying United to their destination wedding in Costa Rica were booted from their
plane on Saturday. Michael Hohl and Amber Maxwell were traveling with family and friends when confusion over seating landed
them back in the terminal.
American Airlines on Saturday apologized to a female passenger and suspended an employee after a video showing an onboard
clash over a baby stroller went viral, in the latest embarrassment for a U.S. carrier over how it treated a customer.
The clip, posted on Facebook on Friday by a bystander aboard the flight, shows a woman in tears with a young child in her arms,
and a man emerging from his seat to confront a male flight attendant who apparently wrested the stroller from the woman.
Published on Apr 22, 2017
Flight attendant apparently clashed with passenger over her baby stroller after which airline put
passenger and her family on another flight and upgraded them to first class.
MILWAUKEE — The way Kima Hamilton sees it, his urgent need to use the restroom as a Milwaukee-bound Delta jet awaited
takeoff was a misunderstanding blown out of proportion.
In fellow passenger Krista Rosolino's view, Hamilton's removal from the April 18 flight was an outrage and so was everyone
else's forced exit from the plane when it returned to the gate in Atlanta. She took to social media to defend a man she
didn't know.
Re: Why flying in America keeps getting more miserable, explained
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 10:34 pm
by Kailuaboy
United Gave a Toddler’s Seat Away and Made His Mom Hold Him for the Entire Flight
By Aric Jenkins
6:51 PM ET
A United Airlines jet taxis at O'Hare International Airport on Sept. 19, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson—Getty Images
United Airlines has issued an apology to a passenger who was forced to give up her 2-year-old son's seat and hold
him for more than three hours during the flight.
Shirley Yamauchi, a middle school teacher from Hawaii, told Hawaii News Now that she had purchased the tickets
to a conference in Boston three months ago and had to pay for her son Taizo's seat — valued at nearly $1,000 —
because children over the age of two are required to have their own seat.
Published on Jul 6, 2017
Shirley Yamauchi claims United Airlines gave away the seat she purchased for her 2-year-old
son to a standby customer, and forced Yamauchi to carry her son on her lap during a flight
to Boston.
Published on Jul 6, 2017
The mother was forced to hold her son on her lap for a three-and-a-half hour flight after
the airline gave away her son's seat to a standby passenger.
Re: Why flying in America keeps getting more miserable, explained
Re: Why flying in America keeps getting more miserable, explained
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2018 1:16 pm
by My3Cats
why is United still in business? What an incredible nightmare for that family and the witnessing passengers.
Re: Why flying in America keeps getting more miserable, explained
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:05 am
by Kailuaboy
Awful New Details About The Death Of Kokito — The French Bulldog Puppy Who
Died When A United Airlines Flight Attendant Forced Him Into An Overhead Bin
The airline claims full responsibility.
By Sarah Gangraw, Editor
March 14, 2018
PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES
A puppy died on a United Airlines flight Monday after a flight attendant made a passenger put him in the overhead compartment.
Against the airline’s policy, a flight attendant on the flight from Houston to La Guardia told the pet’s owner, Catalina Robledo,
she had to stow her 10-month-old French bulldog and his carrier in the overhead bin.
"'It's a dog, it's a dog.' He can't breathe up there.' And she said, 'It doesn't matter, it still goes up there,” Robledo’s daughter,
Sophia Ceballos, told CBS. “She felt the dog and she put him up there.”
