As you may have heard, United airlines forcibly removed a
passenger from a plane because they had overbooked the flight. The anger
towards United has cursed through the Internet and the stock is falling.
Because the passenger was Chinese, Beijing is very angry and many Chinese-Americans
are cutting up their United cards.
But this could just as easily happened on an American flight.
Because the National Institute of Health was paying for my wife to lecture on
Alzheimer's at a conference at the Max Planck Institute she had to fly on an
American flag carrier. I bought a ticket and accompanied her to Europe.
American stranded us in Berlin. Then they stranded us at Heathrow and I was
threatened with arrest as I managed to get my wife and I on a US bound plane.
American couldn't care less.
I'm disabled and in a few weeks I'll be flying to Syracuse
to see my brother who's ill. My only choices are United and American. I need to
have a wheelchair waiting where the Sky Caps meet passengers so I can be loaded
on the plane. United and American don't care. Maybe they will have the
wheelchair there or maybe they won't. Wish me luck.
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