{"id":6836,"date":"2017-04-11T01:03:46","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T01:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2017-04-11T01:03:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T01:03:46","slug":"linked-passenger-forcibly-removed-from-united-express-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/04\/11\/linked-passenger-forcibly-removed-from-united-express-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Passenger Forcibly Removed From United Express Flight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3179,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.askthepilot.com\\\/passenger-forcibly-removed&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.askthepilot.com\\\/passenger-forcibly-removed&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askthepilot.com\/passenger-forcibly-removed\/\">via Ask The Pilot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>For the record, and to correct something that virtually has pointed out: this was a United Express flight, not a United Airlines flight, operated by a contractor company called Republic Airways<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>AND<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>We presume, in this case, the employee was a deadheading crew on assignment, being repositioned to fly elsewhere. Pilots or cabin staff on repositioning flights are considered a high priority. Hundreds of passengers could be affected further down the line should these crew members be delayed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the post I\u2019ve been waiting for today. I was talking to Heather this morning. The outcome was a result of someone following their manual until there was a point where the next steps wasn\u2019t outlined. Once they reach $800 offer per seat, no one ever rejects that offer and someone made the bone-headed decision to blindly tell local police \u201cremove passenger from seat XX\u201d Police blindly removed a passenger after a manager ran out of options.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u2019t a United flight and it\u2019s true. Deadheading crew do have priority over standard-fare passengers. Their delay impacts hundreds more down the line when a flight in another city can\u2019t take off due to a crew missing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The outcome was completely out of line but I have read a lot of misguided commentary on this incident today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Ask The Pilot: For the record, and to correct something that virtually has pointed out: this was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-04-11T01:03:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"a460a423-e8b5-41d4-987d-0b5b5a128248","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-04-11T01:03:53Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ApGCkI-i1QdSYfQtbWhKCSA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Mg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6422,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/12\/09\/linked-scenes-from-the-terrifying-already-forgotten-jfk-airport-shooting-that-wasnt\/","url_meta":{"origin":6836,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Scenes From the Terrifying, Already Forgotten JFK Airport Shooting That Wasn\u2019t&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via NYMag: There was a second stampede, I heard some time later, in Terminal 2. 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