• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    7 months ago

    For those of you contemplating ways of covering up the ads:

    This is the same airline that beat the shit out of that doctor because the airline overbooked the flight. For your own safety, do not cross this airline.

    • Eheran@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      7 months ago

      The Chicago Department of Aviation did that. The same way if the police ends up killing someone, it was not the person calling the police.

      • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        United was booting passengers to make room for employee transfers though, the situation was shit before dept of aviation even got the call.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          7 months ago

          Those employees could have stood. Frontier and Spirit give vouchers out when they intentionally overbook…which before the pandemic was everyday. If nobody takes the bait, they up the voucher value. For them it’s essentially monopoly money.

          If United couldn’t get anybody to bite at the vouchers, then the employees should have stood the whole flight. Instead, they beat a man who was not fighting back physically. He only insisted that he get to his patient. They LITERALLY dragged him off the plane. By his ankle, as he tried to grab onto anything he could.

      • reversebananimals@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        edit-2
        7 months ago

        “If you don’t like it don’t fly”

        Seriously just shut up.

        Edit: LMAO just saw your other comment where you actually said this sincerely. You’re a parody of yourself.

      • Drusas@kbin.run
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        7 months ago

        Have you ever turned a screen off on one of these planes? They turn back on. So you turn them off again. Sooner or later, they turn back on. And repeat.

          • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            7 months ago

            I honestly couldn’t care less how many adverts they show me, they can have a constant stream of adverts the whole flight if it means that some shitty corporation is paying a portion of my travel coats.

            People really need to grow up about stuff like this, if you don’t want adverts then pay for a premium service - I’m poor, I’ll accept the adverts.

            • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              7 months ago

              Here’s the thing: companies have learned they can add ads to make additional money without passing any of that on to their customers.

              If you think you’re going to get a better rate for having ads, you’re fooling yourself. They’ll always charge as much as they can get people to pay and that amount isn’t affected by ads most of the time.

              • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                7 months ago

                This is thinking based on emotion not reality, most of the internet is free because of adverts so your belief that it’s not used to lower prices is clearly silly. Yes companies love profit but they often increase profits by lowering prices to attract more business, it’s a perfectly valid business model to use adverts to reduce the cost to the customer and increase customer volume.