Seems a married couple was denied seating. It will be interesting to see what becomes of this. The media and social media are hating hard and long on UA. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2017/04/16/bride-groom-kicked-united-flight-houston-way-get-married Seems like a non story based on ...
Jump to postRepublic Airlines could,have chartered a corporate aircraft to fly the deadheading crew to Louisville. As long as the charted aircraft could carry the deadheading crew the problem should have been solved. This was being done at ORD and an aircraft should have been available. Many pilot contracts (i...
Jump to postCome off it dude - you can't be serious. You don't bring in goons to assault your paying customers who haven't done anything to deserve it. This isn't the marquis de Sade airlines. Whatever book you are referring to is shit. But it doesn't matter. The company I work for sends hundreds of people all...
Jump to postAnd for everyone who is "appalled" by this, WAKE UP. The police have been doing this for literally DECADES!!! It's how they're trained. It's widespread, systematic and usually a lot worse. I'm sorry that you guys have been so sheltered that you're now just seeing this, but for many their ...
Jump to post!!! What happened to simple human decency??? There is a way of doing things - and this clearly isn't it - this has struck a chord with fliers, (see twitter, see news channels), most paying customers expect to be treated better, and will probably vote with their wallets regardless of whether this wa...
Jump to postBecause he has nothing to apologize for beyond that. People are sympathetic to this dummy because he is a doctor, and because they choose not to understand that operational priority has always resulted in denied boardings from time to time. He had an embarrassing day for himself, that's the story a...
Jump to postInteresting Choice of words from United's CEO..... "I apologize for having to re-accommodate these customers..." And you thought they couldn't get worst than this.... https://twitter.com/united/status/851471781827420160/photo/1 Because he has nothing to apologize for beyond that. People a...
Jump to postI think that's the most disturbing part of this episode - the airline used hired muscle to physically intimidate a paying passenger to get what it wanted. Airlines and airline crews have become accustomed to using threats to beat their customers into submission - regardless if what they want is rig...
Jump to postI think that's the most disturbing part of this episode - the airline used hired muscle to physically intimidate a paying passenger to get what it wanted. Airlines and airline crews have become accustomed to using threats to beat their customers into submission - regardless if what they want is rig...
Jump to postPoint taken, but I think United/Republic's lawyers are going to fall back on this. It's pretty clear that you have to obey airport security under any circumstances. Doesn't make it right, but that's what's going to happen. Nice little loophole - if you can get security to do your dirty work, you ca...
Jump to postSo if someone is loitering or trespassing at your business No. If a customer has paid for goods, and has arrived to collect their goods at an agreed time and date (as per written contract), yet you are refusing to provide them with their goods... the police might take a very dim view of your interp...
Jump to postIt stinks but you should comply No you shouldn't. Meekly complying with authoritarian instructions is a slippery slope to nowhere good. . A bit hyperbolic, no? We're talking about removing a passenger who refused to comply with the airline's and police's requests. We aren't talking about marching i...
Jump to postThis is very clever irony, yes? Tell me it is, please. I guess you're not really suggesting that this incident *wasn't* the fault of the party that not only overbooked a flight but violently assaulted a paying customer whose only crime was paying for a seat and expecting UA to honor the commitment....
Jump to postThis thread has conviced me that people here will defend anything, ANYTHING , that makes an airline looks bad. Are you so indoctrinated in supporting a billion dollar enterprise that (as we see here) does not give two shits about you that you're willing to die in a hill defending it? I think it's e...
Jump to postHe equally certainly is at fault for refusing to deplane when asked. No he is not. You are not required to follow improper or illegal instructions. You may get whacked over the head by a police officer but in court the right to refuse to follow improper orders will be enforced. As others have state...
Jump to postIs UA legally in the wrong, probably not That you think so, and many other supposedly operators of this industry are with you is absolutely shocking. The passenger probably received a blow in his face looking at his bleeding. OK, this is the hard and violent US, (Just been there) but so much violen...
Jump to postOnce again Boys and Girls: 1) It is NOT a UA plane. Doesn't matter what it says on outside of plane. 2) They own the plane, they get to make the rules. When you own the plane, you will get to make the rules. 3) Outside security firm. Have an issue, deal with them. 3) The security firm is absolutely...
Jump to postWhen you're instructed to get off the plane by airline staff, you need to comply. Failure to do so results in the police being called and removing you. Failure to comply with the police and you will be forcibly removed. This man failed to comply with instructions from airline employees and the poli...
Jump to postI'm reading the contract of carriage that goCOgo linked to, and I have to admit that I'm tending to agree with him. I'm not seeing anything in there allowing UA or Republic or whomever that resembles this particular situation. Assuming there isn't any fine print someplace that we're missing, this t...
Jump to postWhen you're instructed to get off the plane by airline staff, you need to comply. Failure to do so results in the police being called and removing you. Failure to comply with the police and you will be forcibly removed. This man failed to comply with instructions from airline employees and the polic...
Jump to postYou can babble all you want. Reality is I have seen it 1st hand and those facts are the facts. Everything else is just some nameless keystrokes mouthing off. Police your own and there is not an issue. No, you're completely wrong - especially where it pertains to US-based FAR 121 carriers (and crew ...
Jump to postClay Lacy is a scab and will be forever remembered as such. Someone willing to stab their brother and sister pilots in the back is not someone to celebrate.
Jump to postMod question: Shouldn't the thread title be 'Persian Gulf' ?
Jump to post'Nanny-state' mentality at its finest. Sounds like the former Mayor Bloomberg regulating the size of soft drinks. Schumer should worry about the debt his country is buried in, not airline seat size.
Jump to postNK already serves IAG, so I doubt you'll ever see them in BUF.
Jump to postDelta pilots deserve every bit of it and more. Many lost pensions in bankruptcy and agreed to 50% pay cuts to save their company. In times of record profits, it's time for them to be made whole. There is absolutely no excuse for management not to pay up.
Jump to postGood riddance to Kuwait Airlines. Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways look progressive and liberal by comparison.
Jump to postMSP-<acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA - Massachusetts">BOS</acronym> and <acronym title="Minneapolis / St. Paul - International / Wold-Chamberlain Field (MSP / KMSP), USA - Minnesota">MSP</acronym>-<acronym title="Philadelphia - International (Mun...
Jump to postNK is building a new hangar at <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym>. It was announced within the past week. <acronym title="Detroit - Metropolitan Wayne County (DTW / KDTW), USA - Michigan">DTW</acronym> beat out <acronym title="Houston - Ge...
Jump to postFedEx still has 70 A300's flying. UPS has over 50 in operation. So, plenty of opportunity to see these birds flying in the USA.
Jump to postPerhaps <acronym title="Spirit Airlines (USA)">NK</acronym> to <acronym title="Las Vegas - McCarran International (LAS / KLAS), USA - Nevada">LAS</acronym>, <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym>, or <acronym title="Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood Inte...
Jump to postI think you'll see <acronym title="JetBlue Airways (USA)">B6</acronym> and <acronym title="Spirit Airlines (USA)">NK</acronym> in Argentina, Chile and Brazil before <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym>. <acronym title="Southwest Airlines (USA)">WN</acronym> hasn't even gained tract...
Jump to postThe relief by the court in Las Vegas is likely only temporary. Major labor upheaval is beginning at G4 and I suspect will not be resolved until there is a strike.
Jump to postThis is not an April Fools Joke by the way. The contention is that this strike would be due to Allegiant management's alteration of the 'status quo' that exists while negotiating under the Railway Labor Act ( US Federal Law governing airline and rail labor relations). If it proceeds and no court inj...
Jump to postThere's a free shuttle between the McNamara and North Terminals that runs all day. Not much different than connecting between terminals 1 and 2 at FRA.
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Spirit Airlines went through a pilot strike in 2010 and the pilots came out with a pretty decent contract at the time. So no, Comair was not the last airline pilot strike in the USA. Face it folks, the American consumer has champagne tastes on a Miller High Life budget. Why else is <acronym title="S...
Jump to postAnd in the meantime <acronym title="Spirit Airlines (USA)">NK</acronym> is year round daily on <acronym title="Chicago - O'Hare International (ORD / KORD), USA - Illinois">ORD</acronym>-<acronym title="Oakland - Metropolitan Oakland International (OAK / KOAK), USA - California">OAK</acronym> and soo...
Jump to postI'm not sure how the U.S. government feels about reciprocity in allowing Mexican agents to be armed on US soil. The U.S. government tends to be pretty one sided in demanding our law enforcement be allowed to be armed on foreign soil while not allowing foreign agents to be armed in the USA. That coul...
Jump to postI've been an airline pilot for nearly a decade and have declared emergencies with ATC. Never has it been necessary to actually put 7700 into the transponder. As to what happens in the cabin, it depends on the nature of the emergency.
Jump to postAny further discussion about raising the retirement age for pilots in the US has to come with a serious reevaluation of medical standards and pilot training/checking. FAA medical exams are far less stringent than those conducted by the JCAB or Chinese authorities. If we are serious about allowing pi...
Jump to postLAX-<acronym title="Baltimore / Washington - International (Friendship) (BWI / KBWI), USA - Maryland">BWI</acronym> and <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym>-<acronym title="Kansas City - International (MCI / KMCI), USA - Missouri">MCI</acronym> al...
Jump to postSpirit is taking 15 additional airframes this year alone. This is expansion. Look out Delta!
Jump to postI've found Havana ARTCC to have some of the best English speaking skills out of all the facilities in Central America and Northern South America.
Jump to postExactly as previously stated, EGPWS warnings are a higher priority to follow than a conflicting TCAS RA. Spurious TCAS RA's on modern equipment are indeed rare.
Jump to postPerhaps people in ACY prefer NK versus flying on a regional jet for double or triple the price?
Jump to postIf you are issued a GPWS and a TCAS RA, follow the GPWS. That's the guidance from my airline. Logically, the terrain will almost certainly be there, whereas the other traffic may not.
Jump to postLoad information is proprietary information and that is why many airline employees are hesitant to divulge it on a public forum. Punishment for the employee could be up to and including termination at many US carriers if they decided to pursue it. Just a friendly FYI.
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