I believe the passenger was a doctor who was flying home to open a free clinic for veterans, and also had patients to see the next day.

I hope he got a huge settlement.

Oh my god! This is horrific!

How stupid managers can be ? Wasn’t it less damage to leave out last showing up when the plane was full instead of force someone off ?

He was actually removed because they needed a seat for a United Airlines employee.

They always over book with a margin of some people not showing, their fault, they should have found a solution on their end. And they picked an Asian American, wow.

If it was overbooked, why didn't they just not let on the last people in line??

If I remember, they were trying to bump off a passenger to transport off duty staff. They aren't allowed to bump passengers off for this reason unless it's voluntary.

I will seriously retire on the civil suit sum i am going to sue the airline for if it happened to me

I remember this. Absolutely disgusting.

Yes I heard about this. He was doctor who was expected to see patients the next day at his destination . S**t like this is f*****g sick and cruel

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Wait, I don't get it. If he was already sat in a seat, what was the problem? If the flight was overbooked then surely just refuse the people that hadn't yet sat down - presumably because there were no seats left. No?

I really hate most people. Who tf forces people to do anything?!!

This is truly out of a dystopic nightmare. I had never heard this story before...and that is evidence of the manipulative power of the media, and what they choose to cover and Not cover.

And they're still in business after that? Note to self: Never fly with United Airlines.

This one should go to court!

I remember this, this was disgraceful! Airline, QuiT Overbooking flights!

doesn't look like this guy got any of all that great American freedom people keep talking about

He needs to sue them. There is no apology or random compensation that makes this okay. This man's bodily autonomy was violated. They are not police and even if they were, this man did nothing wrong. And if they do this to him, they can do it to anyone. Who do these people think they are???

And he was badly injured....

He was in a seat. If they overbooked wouldn't the person who wasn't in a seat be the one left at the gate. Did they take someone off to put someone on?

This made me cry

A buddy flying in a foreign country had the full flight scenario. After they found out he was an engineer they asked if he wanted a seat in the cockpit which he happily took.

PLEASE UPVOTE THIS...PLEASE!!!

He was a doctor who had an emergency surgery the next morning. He explained that he needed to be there for the patient. Why did NO ONE offer up their seat for him? This is the States so probably 2/3rds of the people on that plane were business travelers. But I guess their business meeting was more important (as we have all recently learned, almost ALL of them are perfectly effective over zoom). Also notice he was not white.

I'm still at a loss as to how you can overbook a flight in this age. I fly rather frequently, when buying tickets, most airlines give you the option to choose your seat and it shows what is available. I haven't actually used American Airlines since I don't go to the states that often but a major airline must have a similar feature. And if there is overbooking, how do you decide who is getting kicked out? Do they get reimbursed? Put on the next flight? What makes this person less important than another? This whole incident was just stupid.

Huge airplane-lover here, I enjoy flying so much (always hope for a go-around when landing) and don't even really want to quickly deplane when I arrived my destination airport 🥺 I'd be heartbroken if that happened to me.

Well This post is completely missing the rest of the Vital information!!

All the tea I want? count me in man!

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This is utterly cruel.

Oh poor guy, had to take time off to reflect... My god this is so bad.

A, yes, let's give children nooses, how could this EVER be a bad idea?

Well… If that’s what they said back, they kinda deserve it.

Yikes

I mean, I like pringles better than laxatives... so if I ever need to make myself go I'll have a tasty way to do it.

They BETTER have been terminated!

Each time they said "hey babe" I died a little inside.

TRESemme was kinda being haircist, ngl