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A few more funny United Airlines memes for you to enjoy

April 13, 2017 by Bookworm 11 Comments

No matter your views on the epic battle between Dr. Dao and United Airlines, you have to admit that it’s made for some wonderful all-American humor.

Fly the un-friendly skies of United AirlinesI continue to be agnostic about the Dr. Dao versus United Airlines kerfuffle, in that I think all concerned behaved badly. The fact that United took advantage of laws allowing overbooking and allowed passengers to board when it already knew it needed states, that Republic (its subcontractor) failed to negotiate a peaceful solution with Dr. Dao, and that Chicago’s airport security was unnecessarily rough is all bad. As Scott Kirwin said in a must-read post here, as competition amongst airlines has diminished, airlines have gotten careless and unforgivably arrogant.

However, Dao’s behavior was also careless and unforgivably arrogant (or maybe insane). His screaming hysterically, running back on the plane, and violently resisting being removed from the flight was simply asking for the police to escalate their force. Once it was inevitable that he was going to be booted, he really needed to yield gracefully and sue later.

That, incidentally, is the same point I’ve made with those videos of ugly arrests involve police and black men or women. Once it’s clear they’ve got you, yield gracefully or you’re in for a world of hurt. That’s not a nice thing to have to say, but it’s true. And what’s true for black Americans is true for the Vietnamese Dr. David Dao.

As best as I can tell, the only person who comes off looking good in this entire debacle is Dao’s attorney, Thomas Demetrio. He did a great, low-key press conference, I was impressed:

There’s been one really wonderful thing to come out of the whole United Airlines debacle, and that’s the collective wit of the American people. Steven Hayward put together a great compilation, but I have a few he didn’t include:

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Filed Under: Silly Stuff Tagged With: Airline Monopolies, Airlines, David Dao, Police, Thomas Demetrio, United Airlines

The saga of United Airlines and the bloodied doctor — it’s complicated

April 11, 2017 by Bookworm 20 Comments

While the viral videos of United Airlines and Dr. Dao do not tell the whole story, United definitely handled the matter badly from beginning to end.

Fly the un-friendly skies of United AirlinesI never comment on internet hysteria within the first 24 hours. Subsequent facts always reveal that the initial take was wrong in one way or another. Sometimes the whole story is better, sometimes it’s worse. In the case of David Dao, the doctor hauled off of a United Airlines flight when he refused to vacate his seat, the whole story is both better and worse than it seemed at first.

The video definitely looks bad, what with the woman saying loudly, “Oh, my God. Look what you did to him.” And certainly Dao’s screams are blood curdling:

@United overbook #flight3411 and decided to force random passengers off the plane. Here’s how they did it: pic.twitter.com/QfefM8X2cW

— Jayse D. Anspach (@JayseDavid) April 10, 2017

Nevertheless, as is invariably the case with these out-of-context videos, there’s more to the story. United and its (or the airport’s) security personnel handled matters badly, but there’s was obviously something deeply off about Dr. Dao. Here’s my breakdown of what happened and what could have happened if United had handled the matter more intelligently:

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Filed Under: Capitalism Tagged With: David Dao, United Airlines

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