United Airlines treats passenger like a street dog

An incident occurred on overbooked United Flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville.  United Airlines overbooked its flights. They had a need to send four employees on the plane. It seems that they have poor understanding of human rights. Four people had paid for their flights. The airline did not care that these people had deadlines or responsibilities. They were picked to leave the airplane. All left except one passenger.

The airplane police grabbed one elderly Asian man and dragged him off the plane. They slammed his head against the arm rest. He was bleeding heavily. The police tried to claim that he slammed his own head onto the floor to injure himself. Aren't cell phone video's grand! They showed the truth!

The airline CEO called him hostile and belligerent. All I can say is that is a load of s#%/.  Review of the numerous videos shows a scared man. Did anyone at this thoughtless and cruel company think of giving the employees cultural sensitivity. In China, people treated the way they treated this man are given hard treatment in jail. Sitting with 8 year old children watching this,  I heard a few trains of thought. "Why they being mean to that old man? He wasn't doing wrong."  "Will they do that to me if I fly?" "I thought they (police) only did that to black people.

Got several questions. Why do airlines continue to overbook? They are selling seats that may or may not be available. It seems that they gamble that a certain amount of passengers will not show up. That is a crime. Eventually it catches up to the air line like it did in this situation. Also why not put in four jump seats? Paying passenger will not be treated as street dogs. Make your rules more visible. Especially the one that allows jumped up flight attendants the ability to play God and force people off the plane. They forget that the people they abuse are the ones that keep them working by flying on their airline. Perhaps its time for people to fly other airlines.

I watched news feeds and read information from the following links before blogging.

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/united-airlines-video-security-forcibly-removing-man-overbooked-flight/?fb=dd

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/new-united-video-bloody-just-kill-me/?fb=dd

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/business/united-flight-passenger-dragged.html?_r=0

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ual-passenger-idUSKBN17C1VX

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-united-drags-passenger-0411-biz-20170410-story.html

https://patch.com/illinois/chicago/united-airlines-drags-passenger-plane-ohare-airport

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-10/doctor-dragged-united-plane-after-computer-solves-overbooking-problem