Should restaurants have the right to involuntarily refuse to serve you food after you’ve paid and ordered? Because they sold too many burgers that day? [quote=“ElQuesero, post:164, topic:98660”]
The narrative seems to be that customers would turn up their noses at the higher fares and this carrier would go out of business, sadly.
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Maybe that’s the market at work? How sad would it actually be if carriers, who consistently treat their paying customers like shit, went out of business, allowing a new model where they actually treat us as human beings. The reason they are often able to act with impunity with regards to their customers, is that they a heavily regulated industry (even after the 80s wave of deregulation) that constantly gets propped up by the federal government, since they run a service that’s come to be seen as essentially to the well-being of the domestic and global economy.
Sure, no doubt on that. Same with any other industry. But there is some truth to the importance of the airlines to other industries, and even the functioning of government (lawmakers and other government employees traveling around for various things, for example).
If a hurricane hits and that food is needed for relief efforts, and they commit to providing you with the food at a later date… maybe? It’s a strained analogy from either side, tho.
This isn’t what happened in either case, actually. They are overbooking flights, and then demanding people come off. It’s just a bad business model, if you ask me.
Absolutely, the message I was replying to said the doctor’s lawyer would never settle (or should never?) a case like this.
Obviously if United doesn’t offer much compared to the expected size of the win then nobody should be talking about settling (unless the client is extremely risk adverse, or the law really is on United’s side so chances of a win are lower then they appear).
I didn’t intend to suggest a lawyer should ever force a client to settle, just advise a client on wether it is a bad idea, a so-so idea, a kinda good idea, a good idea, a great idea, or a fantastic idea. Ultimately it is the client’s choice. As I said, maybe winning in court with a record for the future to see means more to them the getting the money in a sealed settlement with no admission of guilt.
(and again I’m not a lawyer, if any of you need legal advice, go find a real one!)
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Lisa Fletcher (lisa_fletch) My desk is covered w court & legal docs re troubled past of the doctor pulled off United. Our report 4p @ABC7Newshttps://t.co/9CtRD0Gy4C[/quote]
What a coincidence! My desk is covered with documents saying Lisa Fletcher is using the lowest form of character assassination to sell herself as an “investigative journalist”.
It’s the exact same BS used on every innocent black/brown person murdered by police in the US, FFS. What they were doing right then is what’s at issue, not what they did {x} amount of time ago in a totally unrelated (set of) incident(s).
