mike carey

More likely folk will be emboldened to go public with their horror stories, no matter which airline it was with.

To Do List: 1. Buy 4 Pigs 2. Paint numbers 1, 2, 3 & 5 on their backs 3. Release them at the mall 4. Sit back & watch Security search for No. 4. Source

To Do List: 1. Buy 4 Pigs 2. Paint numbers 1, 2, 3 & 5 on their backs 3. Release them at the mall 4. Sit back & watch Security search for No. 4. Source

And sitting between a couple who were having a domestic dispute and wouldn't sit together!! Bumped because of a 'higher priority passenger' FFS. If I recall correctly he was a mutual fund manager, so not some pleb.

With a bit of luck the airlines (not just United, but all of them) will have come to the conclusion that the time for involuntary denial of passage ends when the customer steps onto the aeroplane. By all means deny boarding before then, but thereafter it should only be voluntary, however much that costs them. If they haven't worked out that they need the seats before the pax board, too bad.

I think I read that it was based in part on the fare paid and the passengers' frequent flyer status.

Exactly. The RTW ticket is the sort of thing that is seen here as a major offer, other types of offers might have more resonance in the US. Tickets and travel vouchers effectively cost the airline nothing (unless they happen to be used on a flight that was full). United have to be brain-dead (or at least tone-deaf) not to realise that flying home on the last flight on a Sunday night passengers are less likely to volunteer to give up their seats than on almost any other flight you can think of. By way of contrast, if I were offered money to be offloaded on a midday Qantas flight from Sydney to Melbourne when I knew there was another flight in 15 or 30 minutes (which there would be on that route) it would take me under a nanosecond to accept.

This was discussed on the ABC late afternoon news-panel show today, and there was universal agreement that 'Offer more' was the answer. As one of them said, there would have been at least one person who would say, 'Yeah, I'll take the round-the-world ticket'.

Ah, I thought you wanted me to write a review now. I could, 'Sweet, loves to insert tab A into slot B' and so on, but that would be hypothecical. The sooner I can write a well informed review, the better.

Steady on, I haven't met him yet. And I mean 'yet'.

I know he is, and I have chatted with him. He's a lovely guy. Can't wait!

@Russ is so hot. I need to go to NYC.

I have only one Uber experience, in the Jan 16 snowstorm in DC, where a hotel staffer booked me a Uber to the airport. I remain concerned that she was actually charged more than I paid, given the circumstances. (I didn't have a smart phone.)

Not your typical funny. Lisa Wilkinson, who with some dude presents one of the breakfast TV shows here, was called out by the 'Daily Mail' for wearing the same blouse twice in four months! The response is priceless. http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/morning-shows/lisa-wilkinson-delivers-the-perfect-response-to-fashion-critics-on-live-tv/news-story/fa6757e4d1240cb6f261c43ce7974a32 The 'some dude' actually has a name, he is Karl Stefanovic. He wore the same suit every day for a year — and no one noticed.

I had one of those delightful five second 'Yeah so what' moments before the unintended meaning of 'Drag and drop' hit me. (Now cleaning coffee from keyboard.)

The Economist's take on this: http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21720580-ugly-incident-provokes-social-media-storm-passenger-dragged-united-airlines?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/airrageapassengerisdraggedfromaunitedairlinesplane 'Not long before United released Mr Munoz’s statement about the bloodied passenger on Facebook, it had posted a picture of a company dog nuzzling a young boy, part of a programme to make travel less stressful. Travellers will be telling a story about United for some time. It won’t be the one about the puppies.'

If Twitter this past week were a person, here he is:

Nope, not a dud. In case it wasn't clear from the rest of the thread, Oliver and I were experimenting to see whether the 'Your profile is invisible when visiting other profiles' button on RM worked, and it does.

I think what is displayed in both rentmen.com and rent.men is drawn from the same data set, so it would invariably show up as the same information. Happy to be corrected. One or other may hide some information depending on where you are viewing it from.

Hey @Maschio, welcome—well, welcome back—to the forum. Glad you caught up with the thread even if it is almost a year after it was posted. Hope we see more of you here: it's a pleasant sight!