United Air removes engaged couple traveling to their wedding from plane for sitting in wrong seats - Sensationalist Headlines

[quote]An engaged couple were removed from a United Airlines flight to Costa Rica on Saturday, as the airline remained under scrutiny following outrage caused by a video last week of a passenger being forcibly removed from a flight.[/quote] [quote]But Michael Hohl and his fiancée, Amber Maxwell, told KHOU they tried to pay for upgraded seating and were denied, after finding another passenger sleeping across their seats when they were the last to board. After moving within the economy cabin a few rows up, flight crew denied their request to pay a supplement for the seats, which United sells as "economy plus", and told them to move back to their original seats, Hohl said. "We thought not a big deal, it's not like we are trying to jump up into a first-class seat," Hohl told KHOU. "We were simply in an economy row a few rows above our economy seat."[/quote] [url]http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ual-passenger-couple-idUSKBN17J05Q[/url]

[I]United Air:[/I] [U][I]Go Fuck Yourself, Asshole. You ain't flying nowhere.[/I][/U]

i'm a little confused. there was someone in their seat and so they repeatedly tried to pay for new ones instead of just waking the person up? i mean, i can relate, but come on

I remember flying back from mexico as a child when we were on vacation, the pilot let me come into the cockpit and was showing me some of the controls for the plane, he even let me rock the plane from side to side once. Halfway into the flight they made the announcement that we were free to sit wherever since the flight wasn't that full and they wanted to balance the plane or something, so I sat in my own row with my legs stretched across a few seats. These days sitting in the wrong seat gets your ass beat and arrested.

Definitely just a news site capitalizing on the United hate.

Standard practice when I was flying was that you sit in your assigned seat until plane takes off, then when the seatbelt sign is off and the plane is in the air, ask the stewardess nicely if you can change seats. Most of the time they don't give a damn. One glorious time, many years ago, they were so awesome they let me sit in business class because there were like 40 people in total on the flight and it was awesome. Sounds like these two were trying to deliberately capitalize on the United hate as leverage to do whatever the fuck they want. You have to pay for the Economy Plus seating at the time of booking or, if possible, at the time of check in before you get your boarding pass. As annoying as their DLC-ified process is, this is BS and United handled them appropriately.

Just wake up the sleeping guy and ask him to move like, how much of a pushover could you be

How was the passenger already asleep during the boarding phase? Did he just happen to be one of the first people on and fall dead-asleep in the first few minutes?

I'm honestly considering buying stocks. Because I wouldn't be surprised if they will start going up again in a couple of weeks.

[QUOTE=booster;52115454]I'm honestly considering buying stocks. Because I wouldn't be surprised if they will start going up again in a couple of weeks.[/QUOTE] Haven't they already?

I guess you can do anything while flying with United now. Just add (1) tablespoon of noise and spin, apply a layer of "journalism", and them stewards will regret not treating you like royalty! Only available while trend lasts.

[QUOTE=ultra_bright;52115207]I remember flying back from mexico as a child when we were on vacation, the pilot let me come into the cockpit and was showing me some of the controls for the plane, he even let me rock the plane from side to side once.[/QUOTE] I got to do this once too, was pretty great. I've never driven a car, but I've steered a passenger plane full of people v:v:v

Recently flew with thai airways to Japan and it was a pretty empty flight, I had an entire middle row for myself as did the person behind me. So when the time came to take a rest the guy behind me just used the entire row as a bed, and so did I. Nobody batted an eye and some people even moved to other empty rows to also sleep there. But to stay on topic, like others are saying it feels like something is being left out here. It seems to be the trend right now to try and catch United doing something bad after that news story

[QUOTE=Kaios;52115212]Definitely just a news site capitalizing on the United hate.[/QUOTE] It's reuters, though

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;52115879]It's reuters, though[/QUOTE] So long as humans exist, nothing is infallible.

I don't see anything in the article explicitly stating the other passenger was in one of [B][I]their[/I] [/B]seats. The wording "[B]across their seats[/B]" and the context that they were going to their wedding would lead me to believe that there were 3 seats involved and the passenger had the seat in between them, but they wanted to sit together as a couple. I've never flown United, but if the seats are assigned and you presumably can't switch seats, I can see how trying to upgrade to different seats would be feasible, albeit probably not allowed anywhere when already on the plane. If there's another article that describes the seating situation in more clear terms, please let me know.

sounds like they moved back to the seats, following flight attendant instructions then were still removed afterwards. dont see a need for that.

[QUOTE=Mattk50;52116825]sounds like they moved back to the seats, following flight attendant instructions then were still removed afterwards. dont see a need for that.[/QUOTE] It sounds like they were never seated where they belonged in the first place. If they had woken up the guy in their spot and he'd refused to move, it would have been his problem. They didn't do that, apparently they didn't even mention him.

[QUOTE=Mista Tea;52116719]I don't see anything in the article explicitly stating the other passenger was in one of [B][I]their[/I] [/B]seats. The wording "[B]across their seats[/B]" and the context that they were going to their wedding would lead me to believe that there were 3 seats involved and the passenger had the seat in between them, but they wanted to sit together as a couple. I've never flown United, but if the seats are assigned and you presumably can't switch seats, I can see how trying to upgrade to different seats would be feasible, albeit probably not allowed anywhere when already on the plane. If there's another article that describes the seating situation in more clear terms, please let me know.[/QUOTE] The article states they booked seats 24 B and C, these would be directly beside each other.