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In response to "You bump your employees and charter a flight for them." by Will Hunting

This is where they are really getting hammered. It was their own fucking employees bumping paying customers.

Posted by Bacon (aka redmond) Apr 11 '17, 07:46

I am sure that crew had to get somewhere for some reason, but the optics are horrible.

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Right, but those employees were going to Louisville to work a flight the next morning. - ty97 Apr 11, 07:50 9
- Sure, they get there via the gulfstream or whatever. - Will Hunting Apr 11, 07:52 4
  - uh-huh, charter a plane, that's logical -- nm - ty97 Apr 11, 07:57 3
    - You know what's not logical? Not having peope where they need to be, instead of relying on shafting your paying customers. - Will Hunting Apr 11, 08:24
    - Unless there is a rule that crew members have to travel on company equipment, which there very well might be -- (edited) - znufrii, definitely not 40 Apr 11, 07:59 1
      - Sure, if you can see the one PR situation like this coming, charter the plane, but they aren't Miss Cleo. -- nm - ty97 Apr 11, 08:00
- in this case, Chicago to Louisville, the answer should be simple. - groiny Apr 11, 07:52 1
  - Union rules wouldn't allow it I'm sure -- nm - ty97 Apr 11, 07:56
- The public never pays attention to get those details. We are a headline culture. -- nm - Bacon Apr 11, 07:52 1
  - Headline -- United can't schedule the right number of crews to work in the right place. - Will Hunting Apr 11, 07:53
I can see it from a union standpoint though: "Hell no you're not going to choose income over employees and make us pay our own way to destination." -- nm - Max Apr 11, 07:48 3
- There's no paying their own way -- they get the United-comped limo ride or the Gulfstream - Will Hunting Apr 11, 07:51
- no-one is suggesting they pay their own way. -- nm - Andie Apr 11, 07:49 1
  - I'm just imaging that if they don't have a Deadhead-over-customers clause, they end up getting shafted somehow. This is United we're talking about :) -- nm - Max Apr 11, 07:50

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This is where they are really getting hammered. It was their own fucking employees bumping paying customers.

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