"I apologise for having to re-accommodate these customers".
In an official statement United Airlines chief executive Mr Munoz said: "This is an upsetting event to all of us here at United".
I know better than to judge this issue on the basis of one incident, but I'm extremely doubtful numerous passengers aboard Flight 3411 would have felt more secure if the three uniformed officers who carried out the airline's dirty work were carrying firearms.
His mouth appeared to strike an armrest as cops were yanking him from his seat, so he was dragged down the aisle bleeding from his mouth. "Oh my God, look at what you did to him,"one woman yells". The airport said it had personnel who needed seats to be at work the next day.
"Aviation Officers arrived on the scene attempted to carry the individual off of the flight when he fell", the statement, published by TIME, says.
United said did not have enough room for all its booked passenger was because it had to transport four crew members to Louisville for another flight. "Had they not gotten to their destination on time, that would have inconvenienced many more customers,"said United spokesman Charlie Hobart".
Bridges said United should not have boarded the flight if it was overbooked.
Part of the problem, at least, comes from the often-overlooked policy that allows airlines to stop passengers from boarding a plane if it's overbooked. The US Department of Transportation requires airlines to first seek volunteers to take a later flight and carriers will generally offer compensation in the form of a voucher for future travel. Passengers have the right to refuse, Larusso added, but if a person does not comply with airline instructions, federal law does permit the airline to ask authorities to remove the passenger from the plane.
United offered passengers up to $1,000 to de-board the Sunday flight, according to an internal e-mail from CEO Oscar Munoz.
A manager then boarded the plane and told passengers that four people would be selected to leave.
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Passenger Audra D. Bridges posted the video on Facebook.
"Everyone was shocked and appalled", Bridges told the Courier-Journal.
These voluntary swaps occur "probably thousands of time every day on a national scale", said Robert Mann, the head of airline consulting firm R.W. Mann & Company. "He was resisting any way he could".
That meant a man claiming to be a doctor needing to report on duty was removed from the flight with force by three police officers. The man's glasses were askew and there was blood on his face.
United replied to one of Tyler Bridges' tweets, saying: "Tyler, this is very concerning". Can you please provide the flight number and details via DM?
The incident was one of the top-trending topics on Twitter as users took to the website to express their anger over the forceful removal of the passenger from United Flight 3411 as it was about to take off from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, on Sunday.
Also if an airline is forced to use a smaller plane, those passengers bumped are not entitled to compensation.
The man became extremely agitated, according to Bridges, stating that "he was a doctor who needed to see patients at a hospital in the morning".
The AP was unable to confirm the passenger's identity.
Travel industry analyst Henry Harteveldt questioned why United didn't simply offer a larger sum.
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