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Reminds me of this. Don't worry, cops got this drunk skyjacker!

So company personnel can't fly on company equipment anymore. Okay...so now the down line flight cancels. Or...the other route. The company charters a flight for the company employees or offers more compensation to boot pax. Either way that cost gets absorbed by the other paying pax in terms of...

this belongs on a Pet Peeve thread. Think I saw one of those once.

If you are bumped you get either your money back or a new flight. If the new flight is tomorrow then you get a hotel.

Partially offset the loss? You want two seats for one ticket plus a fee. The fee would need to be full fare in your senario.

Who is Scott Pruett? Flying into PHX today a pilot was filing an IFR flight plan with center in the air. His name was Scott Pruett. Same guy?

Thank you for your wonderful contribution to this thread.

I didn't say or imply that.

Airlines, like most businesses, are run by processes. I'm confident everyone in this event was correctly applying their process. The problem was the doctor not complying. With that said. I think the UAL process should have applied more carrot before the exact same stick. Offer more money...Give...

Yeah, parts never bump charter pax unless it's the Pax's parts. The decision to bump the parts or the pax lies exclusively with the paying party in charter.

I play almost exclusively out doors. It's not a problem.

Charter and airline are different in that regard. In fact, you could charter a UAL flight and be sure none of your passengers will be bumped. There will be zero chance of employees dead heading on your UAL charter. But this wasn't a charter flight so there were dead heading employees.

Maybe they should just not sell any tickets. Then all the seats would be available.

But he SAT DOWN!!!

Again, this was NOT an overbooking issue.

How about this? Police: Hi, my name is Dave. Doc: Do you like cereal? Dave: listen to me bark like a dog, "quack quack quack" Doc: vroom vroom! Dave: Do you hear my mom? This is fun, we could come up with all sorts of ways it COULD have happened.

Far more than MSM is out for blood. Look at this thread here. Look at all the folks who have said they'll "never fly UAL again". We got arm chair lawyers citing the rare "I've already sat down" defense and DOT and COC references galore. We even have an attack of pilot commuting for some...

What is this 'wrong' you speak of?

You mean on a flight? Depends. If you count standby commuters then a lot...but they don't bump pax. If you count dead heads who do bump pax then not many. In two years I've dead headed say a dozen times and bumped revenue once. One one occasion I sat in the jumpseat in order to get someone else on.

Oh my. The 'throw United under a bus' crowd sure picked a poor horse to bet on.