Boycott United

Now I was going to give them a pass on that brouhaha last month where they would not allow 3 young women wearing leggings to board their flights.  The idea was, the women were traveling using "buddy passes" and one of the conditions of using that type of pass to fly, was adhering to the United employee dress code, which apparently forbids leggings.  So due to their special status, I think they needed to follow the rules in order to get the free rides...

So I didn't jump on board the boycott United bandwagon that began rolling through the social media.

But oh, my stars.  Jumping aboard now, buying fuel for the journey, and offering to navigate, I am!  BOYCOTT UNITED #BoycottUnited

The recent video going viral involves the bodily dragging off the plane in Chicago of a man (I don't care that he is a doctor, which has been widely publicized) whose name came up on a random computerized list of the names of two passengers whom the local staff decided were going to be forcibly evicted from that flight.

The backstory is that they booked the flight completely, then decided at the last minute that they needed to shuttle 4 pilots/staff members to the destination city (Louisville, KY?) in order for them to perform their duties as United employees.  So they offered $400 incentives for 4 passengers to voluntarily debark.

No dice.  They doubled it to $800.  Still no one volunteered.  Finally the passengers were told that 4 names were going to be picked at random...and so a couple decided to take the bait.  That left two names, and this man's name came up first.  He apparently refused, as he had to be at his destination for work-related purposes the next day, too.

But then it gets nasty.  Cell videos going, this passenger's humiliation and trauma are out there for everyone to gawk at.  You can google it, I'm not going to link at this time.  You may have seen it on the news, anyway.

How disgusting.  I do not care what kind of spin they use, I don't care how much damage control they try, what personnel actions they take, I hope that man and others on that flight sue United into the poorhouse.

And I'ma add once again, just in case you don't realize my position on this issue:  #BoycottUnited