If you can't fit something you know you're likely to need, then you're over capacity. You might get lucky, but it's like a trip loadout that requires leaving your spare tire at home; if you get a flat, you have no one to blame but yourself, and you better be prepared to offer whatever it takes to get someone to help out with your screwup.
Are you dense or just being obtuse ?? So you're suggesting that the airline set aside ~10 seats (average crew for a 747) "Just-in-case" on every flight. Tell me again about your background in the Aviation industry. Because you obviously are smarted then everyone else who worked in it. There was a saying we had in the Army. "Stay in your lane." And your are way, way outside of yours.
When buying a product I'm pretty sure most people factor in the quality of it, and coupons don't affect the quality.
I always look for the cheaper option when it comes to flights, but for my wife she has to be comfortable.
Then you can blame every single other person on that flight. 40-50 people and all they needed was one more volunteer. They are just as guilty then for causing the delay.
IIRC, they got zero volunteers. SO the computer held a lottery. 4 people lost, 3 accepted the results and Doc *expletive deleted*bag decided he was "too special" to lose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJU4PfbcjtMIt's like he has patients or something to attend to.
And nobody else had important things to attend to ?? There could have been people going to visit a dying relative. Company sales reps that need that sale tomorrow to get that big sale to make their quarter, or beat the competition and keep their company solvent. Guess what, he could get another doc to cover for him. I've been seen by all three nephrologists in my doctor's practice. He and his kids have been sick on the days I have appointments, or he's been called into the hospital for this, that or other emergency. Guess what? I'm still here. I still get seen, and we continue to march. [
I'm just going to go off on a limb here, but I'm betting that that is not absolute.
Give it a test on you next flight and report back on your findings. .
Then what was the problem?
Last minute need to reposition a crew. The flight was full. Not overbooked. Overbooked means they sold more tickets then they had seats available. Up until the need to reposition the crew occurred, which could not be foreseen when they started selling tickets.
Should of found some other way to do it besides *expletive deleted*ing over someone who paid for their ticket to get to a certain destination at a certain time.
BZZZZZZZZZZZT WRONG. Again read the fine print. The airline agrees to move your carcass from point A to point B. You get there, when you get there. There's no guarantee as when that will be. (See weather, especially in Chicago, and how it screws up flights schedules royally.) Again, all that's in the fine print above the "I accept" button when you buy your ticket.
So that's four days that United and the cops that beat him has screwed over other peoples lives.
Point of Order. United employees never touched him. And had he cooperated, he'd have been seeing his patients since sometime Monday or Tuesday at the latest. Watch the video. When officer friendly says it's time to go, it's time to go. No here on the board shows any pity to some douchbag out on the street that decides he's not going to obey the cops and gets tuned up in the process. The reason five days (it's now Friday) of patients haven't been seen is because of the Doc *expletive deleted*bag. He needs to take responsibility for what happened. His refusal to cooperate is what got his ass beat. Notice that the other 3 passengers who complied did NOT get their asses beat. Only Doc "I fly from LA 12 hours" Special *expletive deleted*bag Snowflake.
You know, when people book a flight it's generally because they need to get somewhere fast by a certain time. If not you would have people jumping at the opportunity every time their is an offer to be bumped off with compensation.
Which is why they have processes that they use (let the computer pick) if they don't get volunteers. Does it suck. Yeah, when it happens. But it doesn't happen all that often.
