For those of you contemplating ways of covering up the ads:
This is the same airline that beat the shit out of that doctor because the airline overbooked the flight. For your own safety, do not cross this airline.
That seems incredibly stupid. A doctor can afford to sue.
he wasn’t white, so they didn’t assume he was a doctor
i think we should make them afraid to cross us
The Chicago Department of Aviation did that. The same way if the police ends up killing someone, it was not the person calling the police.
United was booting passengers to make room for employee transfers though, the situation was shit before dept of aviation even got the call.
Sure, but telling someone to leave their plane for some oddball reason is “only bad” not outright crazy like what happened then.
Those employees could have stood. Frontier and Spirit give vouchers out when they intentionally overbook…which before the pandemic was everyday. If nobody takes the bait, they up the voucher value. For them it’s essentially monopoly money.
If United couldn’t get anybody to bite at the vouchers, then the employees should have stood the whole flight. Instead, they beat a man who was not fighting back physically. He only insisted that he get to his patient. They LITERALLY dragged him off the plane. By his ankle, as he tried to grab onto anything he could.
That’s not how FAA regs work. There is no such thing as standing room on a plane.
If United couldn’t get anybody to bite at the vouchers, then the employees should have stood the whole flight.
Yeah, that is not a solution. The FAA is salivating at the thought of this. Everyone must have a seat for takeoff and landing.
it was not the person calling the police.
At this point anyone calling the police in the US is a necessary accomplice, and guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, aggravated battery, and probably several other crimes.
And may still get killed by police.
And they break guitars
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Overbooking should be a mandatory minimum compensation of the greater of 1000x the ticket price or $20k. It’s a truly fucked up practice to disrespect people’s time like that.
Oh, we’ll just refund you the cost of the ticket. That was the whole cost, right?
They did what?
“The incident is widely characterized by critics as an example of mishandled customer service.”
Made me laugh, that’s putting it lightly…
They mishandled the shit out of him.
“The incident is widely characterized by critics as an example of
mishandledmanhandled customer service.”Just a typo.
Holy shit what a ride that was.
It’s clear from a lot of stories like this (severe customer mistreatment) that United employees are miserable people who hate their jobs but this is nuts. I hope Dr. Dao got a huge settlement from United.
Is United Express actually United? I thought those tended to be a regional carrier using the name under license.
I’d expect the labour friction to be still worse; I was peripherally involved with such a firm 20 years ago and know they had terrible problems with staff retention, mostly because they wouldn’t pay enough to retain people after they got fed up with the free-standby-flight privileges.
United is Four Seasons compared to American.
Wow. Even Trump thought they went too far. Damn.
And the CEO who brushed that assault off ‘suffered’ a ‘delayed promotion’. Poor thing. For saying that stuff about anyone, let alone a customer, he should have been fired, no golden parachute.
I think the doctor’s patients should have sued the airline too, since no doubt having their doctor pounded to a pulp caused them to miss their appointments.
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I got screeched at for covering up a super bright blinking light on a red eye. Their FAs are next level stupid.
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Screens don’t hit back
“If you don’t like it don’t fly”
Seriously just shut up.
Edit: LMAO just saw your other comment where you actually said this sincerely. You’re a parody of yourself.
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Have you ever turned a screen off on one of these planes? They turn back on. So you turn them off again. Sooner or later, they turn back on. And repeat.
Worse, you will be surrounded by them on all sides, as others don’t bother… :-(
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I don’t think you’re being beaten up for it. I certainly am not beating you up for it. But usually, yeah, the screen does come back on during the flight. I think they turn it back on automatically every time there’s an announcement. As somebody who finds screens like that very distracting and even migraine-inducing (the “busyness” of that sort of thing is a big trigger), it’s really frustrating.
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Hot take. Tell me more about me?
I saw you eat food dropped in a toilet.
I honestly couldn’t care less how many adverts they show me, they can have a constant stream of adverts the whole flight if it means that some shitty corporation is paying a portion of my travel coats.
People really need to grow up about stuff like this, if you don’t want adverts then pay for a premium service - I’m poor, I’ll accept the adverts.
That money isn’t subsidizing your flight cost, it’s increasing corporate profits.
Here’s the thing: companies have learned they can add ads to make additional money without passing any of that on to their customers.
If you think you’re going to get a better rate for having ads, you’re fooling yourself. They’ll always charge as much as they can get people to pay and that amount isn’t affected by ads most of the time.
This is thinking based on emotion not reality, most of the internet is free because of adverts so your belief that it’s not used to lower prices is clearly silly. Yes companies love profit but they often increase profits by lowering prices to attract more business, it’s a perfectly valid business model to use adverts to reduce the cost to the customer and increase customer volume.
Depends on the plane and system it has. Last United flight I was on it stayed off the entire flight. I use my phone and generally don’t look at it anyway but it was nicer I suppose.
Let’s have you build a train line to Europe eh?
Where can I book a train to Europe?
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You can, there’s a button combo. It changes sometimes but if you spam a few things I can always black it out
But that’s not the point, it still sucks
You can if you’re a Party member
This should count as violation of human rights. You’re chained to the seat for hours and have no other option than look at this screen or force your eyes closed. Holy shit, people should get really mad. Flashing ads on a screen you don’t look at directly are still very annoying, even if you look on your phone.
I need to start a business selling rectangular shaped covers for these displays. I’ll even make one that serves as a holder for an iPad, so you can substitute your own screen.
Duct tape
Make them magnetically attach to the screen.
I fold the flight safety manual and hang it over the screen with a tab, inserted into the folding gap above the screen.
This guy Uniteds
You can turn off the TV dude
In my experience, that’s only temporary. The screen will always wake up again on United flights.
I wasn’t aware they glued your eyelids and head directly facing the screen
Found the boot licker
You can literally not watch things if you don’t want to.
Read a book.
🥾👅
Boot licking is when you are not easily distracted by shiny lights.
It’s when you suck oligarch cock
Y’all behave like they put a gun up to your head and force you to watch them ads lmao.
It’s mental how the simple thought of maybe do something else than watch the ads is met with such hostility lmao.
You know what doesn’t have ads (yet, anyway)? Mother fucking books.
You know what you can take on a plane with you? A mother fucking book.
Read a book.
Airlines in America really suck, I feel like we have much better options here in Europe
They do and I won’t argue that point. It would fly in the face of everything I have seen. Multiple times I have flown on planes based in 3rd world countries to other 3rd world countries and each and every time it was a more pleasant experience than flying domestic in the US. I mean the whole thing. From being dropped off to the airport, to security, to food in the airport, to the comfort levels of the chairs, to the amount of leg room. All of it was better, all of it.
Plus our border is terrible as well. Last year took my family abroad and when we got back to the US my six year old put her little backpack on the scanner too quickly for the Border Guard liking. So the big manly tough guy screamed at my six year old. She proceeded to cry. I wanted to sock him across the face but not as much as I want to avoid a 20 year prison sentence. Next time I will go all Karen and write a letter to go in his file with his badge number. It will make me feel better but fix nothing.
Yup.
My last flight a year ago was so bad I’m just going to drive from now on. I don’t care if I have to take an extra day of PTO.
Can you turn the screens off? I haven’t flown in 5 years, but I just watched stuff off of my tablet instead.
In my experience yes, but some planes ive notice they turn back on each time there is an announcement, so depending on how many it can be annoying. Eother way advertising is a cancer that plagues our lives more and more.
You can, but I’ve stopped ever using them because the screen completely stops for every. Single. Announcement.
And now you can have your phone out for take off and landings, so yea no thanks I’ll stick with my device that keeps working when they’re making some random announcement about drinks or some shit
If you still can, they’ll find ways to disable the option to turn them off, because it’s time you don’t watch an ad.
Nothing a bit of paper/cardboard and a strip of tape can’t fix.
Can’t wait to see adds for prostate exams or erectile malfunction on a plane when I get older.
Psssshhhhh, you won’t see them. It’s a 3 hour plane ride where you have no responsibilities, surrounded by people that by this point in the day you already can’t stand.
At that age, you’re telling me you WON’T fall asleep???
“At that age”
Buddy, how old do you think people are when they’re supposed to start checking for prostate cancer?
Just a few hours away from returning back to the dirt in the ground surely?
On their deathbed, a man shows up to deliver strong pentrative action to a geriatric patient.
Ya know, send em’ out with a bang.
I don’t know about prostate cancer, but I do know that apperently I waited too long to check for colon cancer. Just spent a year recovering, and I’m only 40. It was probably there already for a number of years.
So, start getting screened when you’re 5 years old, I guess…
Time for me to whip out my trusty old Black Sheet’o’Paper and masking tape…
Oh look, yet another reason why not to fly anymore!
Airline passengers should have confidence that their personal information is not being shared improperly with third parties […]
So they are only shared properly with third parties? Great!
TRAAAAAIIIIIIIINS.
I wish I had train options where I live
I’ve heard they are great to cross oceans.
Distance between mainland Eurasia and mainland North America is 86 km. But you will have to use 1520 mm gauge.
Nothing that some Self Adhesive Vinyl can’t fix. They’ll have to deal with getting it off the screen afterwards too. Want to fine me for it? Then tell me where you got the data, because I didn’t consent to you having my data.
Calling into United:
Hey I see you charged me $400 for a replacement screen? Tell me, where did you buy the targeted ad data you used to display ads on that screen? Oh, an agency that I signed terms and conditions for at some point? Shit, alright then.
I mean, fuck United tho and they will not be getting and damn money from me.
You probably did/do consent at some point, but nobody reads the fine print.
You bought the ticket right?
While in the EU or California, what ever works better…
The little guy always wins!
In david and goliath, david won. In the tortoise and the hare, the tortoise won. Rey Mysterio vs the 2006 Royal Rumble, Rey Mysterio won.
Hmmmm, you may be onto something!
That’s what I’m saying! And I’m sure we could make up dozens more stories too.
So I am going to sit down and the screen will be full of penis enlargement pills? What will all the hot singles in the area think?
If you’re getting targeted ads for penis enlargement pills, then the system thinks you have a small pp. If this is an error, you should submit photographic evidence to their office to prove you don’t have a small pp.
Insert penis here
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The Ad Algorithm
It knows when you are sleeping It knows when you’re awake It knows when you’ve been bad or good So consume for goodness sake
Fuck this.
nodding off? time for a bright ad with super saturation and lots of brightness variability, they’ll strobe you into paying attention.
how much do you have to pay to turn the fucking thing off?
And I’m sure this in no way will invade people’s privacy.
“Hmm, why is the anti-queer politician sitting next to me being served dozens of male underwear ads? Hmmmm…”
“Why is my daughter receiving ads for newborn diapers? Hmmm…”
“Why is my neighbor receiving ads for anger management? Hmmm…”
Why is my neighbor receiving ads for anger management?
He probably gets aggressive when seeing too many ads
Good luck with that. I’m gonna turn that bitch off one way or another.
Preferably “accidentally” damaging the screen
