Summary
United Airlines apologized to Melissa Sotomayor after crew members tried to make her remove her son’s ventilator during a March 8 flight from Tampa to Newark.
Sotomayor, whose 2-year-old son relies on a ventilator and tracheostomy tube, said staff demanded the equipment be stowed for takeoff despite prior medical clearance.
A third flight attendant claimed the child would “be OK” without it. The captain called her “difficult” and said the equipment was a safety risk.
Sotomayor expressed feeling humiliated and vowed never to fly United again.
Let’s not forget the time a United flight was overbooked and picked a random guy to take off the plane even though he was already in his seat. He refused and the passenger was beaten unconscious and dragged out on his back https://youtu.be/VrDWY6C1178
He was a physician seeing patients the next morning, so he was the worst person to try and force to take another flight
The people responsible for doing that should be in prison or dead.
In prison, yes
Dead? No.
Let’s not get down to their level and lose our ethics
Stochastic tyranny. No single piece of the machine is particularly responsible for the horrific result.
Your representative (AKA you) allow airlines to overbook.
100% of the passengers make the flight, none take the buyout or bump.
Airlines throw someone off at random, calling the cops because it’s now legally a criminal trespass.
Every single snowflake in the equation feels they are not responsible for the avalanche.
Just following orders is not a valid excuse. That was established around eighty years ago.
Whose orders are you following when you sit home and don’t pressure your legislature to change the law?
The fact that the law exists tells you that the legislature never cared about our opinions at any point. Anyone who does and runs for office is scuttled by the major parties to ensure we don’t get that choice.
Ah okay, just give up and let people who haven’t given up run our country then. Brilliant, let me know how that goes for you.
You assume there is only one way to fight back…
Actually, you’re worse than OP because you were aware that was an option and yet nothing has changed.
Yep, I’m including myself in my condemnation of people who haven’t stopped this kind of thing. Did my writing imply otherwise?
It’s not going to be legislation that takes us off of the current path.
Are we talking about MAGA or people getting arrested for not cooperating with airline overbooking?
Seems like you’re trying to steer the conversation towards the MAGA problem, which is wasted on me because I agree with you, not to mention not relevant to this conversation.
You come to this comment section where people are talking about United Airlines trying to remove a kids ventilator and you make a personal attack on someone implying they’re lazy for not being more politically active.
Then, when someone does make a political reference, you tell them it’s not relevant to the current conversation lol. Your comments are insanely standoff-ish and I’m fairly sure you’re just trolling but on the off chance you are actually like that you may want to consider trying to be more personable if you actually want to get your points across.
Overbooking, essentially breaking the contract, and having the police beat a nonviolent doctor unconscious is big money fucking that individual over and the government is complicit. If you think that only voting is going to bring about all the change that would be needed to stop that behavior, please look at the bigger picture.
A 5 gallon bucket can carry 5 gallons of water. It is also capable of carrying 5 gallons of bleach. Just because those two things are true it does not mean bleach == water. I didn’t mention those idiots.
Just to be clear to anyone reading this, please vote. Please vote in your local elections. I just don’t think voting alone is going to change violent behavior from big corps. History has shown us how fast companies can take power, and how they can rival or exceed the cruelty of Nazi Germany, look at many of the large trading companies back in the day. They did horrific, horrific shit. Look at all the examples of the terrible shit companies pull today. Companies have committed genocides, we just remember them differently than the Nazis because they lost the war and all their PR people. But companies have more PR people than ever.
Just like “backlash” for United beating that doctor didn’t change shit, you can vote, but United will pay the politicians.
So yeah I stand by that comment, and its relevance to the comment thread something else is needed to change the course, but we still need to keep voting.