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United passenger threatened with handcuffs to make room for 'higher-priority
' traveler
Geoff Fearns paid about $1,000 for a full-fare, first-class ticket to Los
Angeles. He boarded the aircraft at Lihue Airport on the island of Kauai,
took his seat and enjoyed a complimentary glass of orange juice while
awaiting takeoff.
Then, a United employee rushed onto the aircraft and informed him that he
had to get off the plane.
“I asked why,” he told me. “They said the flight was overfull.”
Fearns, like the doctor at the center of that viral video from Sunday night,
held his ground. He was already on plane, already seated. He shouldn’t
have to disembark.
“That’s when they told me they needed the seat for somebody more important
who came at the last minute,” Fearns said. “They said they have a
priority list and this other person was higher on the list than me.”
“I understand you might bump people because a flight is full,” Fearns said
. “But they didn’t say anything at the gate. I was already in the seat.
And now they were telling me I had no choice. They said they’d put me in
cuffs if they had to.”
A United employee, responding to Fearns’ complaint that he shouldn’t have
to miss the flight, compromised by downgrading him to economy class and
placing him in the middle seat between a married couple who were in the
midst of a nasty fight and refused to be seated next to each other. |
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