The memes that are spreading around the internet are killing United.

I'm pretty sure they'd gladly pay even $10 million to have this all go away (or to have never happened at all).

IMO airlines better review their damn overbooking policies too. 

I seems they suffered from tunnel vision as well. I can't understand how the fate of United Airlines rests on 1 employee not making it to the right location in time. Don't they have stand ins in Kentucky, other employees to shuffle around, send him in a private car over night, private charter, other airline, other airport. Why did they decide to put their logistical problem on the passengers.

Btw did the doctor get arrested for tresspassing or obstruction of justice? Was he charged with anything? Or did they just start pulling on him because the airline told them to?

Oh nice, the smear campaign has begun
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Some of those memes are funny as hell, they're being taken to the cleaners over this whole fiasco.

Oh PR wise they stand to lose big no matter if it goes to court or not.  If they already lose on the PR side then it matters not what they settle for and they might be willing to toe the line. Interesting enough, notice how they apoligize for the overbooking but did not apologize to the guy that got hurt.  Classic case were they do not want to admit guilt or responsibility just in case it do go to trial.

This is fucking embarrassing, the man was a doctor and had a compromise, also I heard all the people they choose to leave the airplane were asians, disgusting. Thankfully United Airlines will pay for this, their stock is falling like a rock.

There are already some good memes about this lol

Oh they will not change the overbooking part.  What they will probably do is make sure to not board until this part is cleared up.  This is great for other airlines and bad for United.  You can believe other airlines are changing policy now to avoid these situation where someone gets on board but refuse to leave.  I am sure they are thanking United right now.

Don't know what kind of absurd rules american airlines has but going by some people here

- An airline has all the right to refuse or delay a passengers ticket before boarding passes, incase overbooked.
- Airlines will only issue Boarding Passes to passenger who could be accommodated with a seat on the flight
- By issuing boarding passes airline approves passengers as a customer and can only remove them if they are
nusance to other passengers, a threat, shows signs of being medically unwell..or are requested by police
authorities if in case there a convicted fugitive trying to flee.
- Passengers Safety is the utmost priority in aviation.

People saying he wouldn't have gotten hurt if he would just complied with the officer! But Comply for what? he was being forcefully denied the service which he had paid and which airline agreed to provide when they issued boarding passes which meant he was not on the overbooked.

Philip de franco, gave the best example.. "If you go in restaurant, order food and when your waiting for your food, an employee ask you to vacant the place because someone else needs it" and what makes it worst is that in this case you had already paid for the food.

I don't know about the laws in the United States, but i can't believe the police is there to enforce arbitrary rules of a private company.

If the police are called to such a case, their questions should be: "Is there a security concern? Has the man broken any law? Is this a dangerous situation?" If not, you are on your own dealing with this situation.

This.

And the company's policy about overbooking is totally messed up in the part about removing people already on board (possibly with their luggage in the hold too) to make room for other people that still aren't.