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This is true. I just checked mine from last night and it's gone. I have posted a new one. Let's see if it stays.
Without a link to your new tweet this coming from an account that was made just to post this comment does not carry a lot of weight.
Overbooking probably makes sense in general - it should lower costs for everyone in theory. If they used this bid system that I proposed, they would be less afraid of overbooking, and do more of it - until an equilibrium of opportunity lost to empty seats equals the expected payout to napkin bidders.
Even if there is no economic benefit to this system, the voluntary aspect will save some heartache.
Surprised that people here are taking this at face value. Why would Twitter remove these tweets from random users while leaving the vast majority of negative tweets in place? No proof has been given. Indeed, this Jay Beecher's allegedly deleted tweet is visible as far as I can tell: https://mobile.twitter.com/dancow/status/851808188567388161 edit: To be fair, Beecher says that my tweet refers to tweets he sent out af…
My tweet from last night is gone. It's not "alleged".
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Overbooking is an extremely common practice. In fact, I don't know of a single airline that doesn't overbook. On a plane with hundreds of seats you almost always get cancellations; the small amount of times you don't, you almost always get people volunteering to be pushed to the next flight in exchange for money (I've done it myself a few times as I don't mind working in airports). Cases like these are exceedingly ra…
As with you, I'm not opposed to overbooking, but: 1) Overbooking should be handled at the gate. 2) I'd like to see an incredibly high legal ceiling for compensating passengers who voluntarily reschedule. $800 (4x the ticket price) or we'll drag some of you out of the plane is ridiculous. And let's not forget that the ceiling is only a legal limitation; it was United's discretion to stop the bidding at the legal ceili…
It generally is. No idea why it wasn't in this case.
United completely fucked this up in so many ways. Like you said:
1. The overbooking issue should have been handled at the gate. Deplaning should only be done in extreme circumstances, this was not one.
2. The extra crew should have been boarded on a different flight when they didn't get enough volunteer leavers.
3. A much higher ceiling should be placed on the ticket compensation for the extreme cases, through an auction. I don't know if this is legally possible though, but if it's not I'm sure something can be worked out in miles/free future tickets/etc. Pre-flight deplaning costs a lot more in wasted time/delays and even more when it's forced with extra costs in bad press/publicity, security calls, etc. This is a classic example of wasting millions to save hundreds.
4. Security obviously used excessive force. The entire ordeal should have been halted and the CEO should have immediately spoken against their actions rather than come out supporting them.
It's one thing to make idiotic decisions, follow idiotic policies and cost people money. Physical assault is in a completely different ballpark. We have video evidence of what happened -- I hope to see the officer fired and prosecuted. I'm not holding my breath though.
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> Wonderful, so Twitter is now a tool for corporate propaganda, Google is providing Censorship-as-a-Service API, Facebook is removing links classified as "Fake News(tm)", Reddit is deleting whatever mods don't agree with etc. This was inevitable. All the above-mentioned services are funded - in large part - by ads. When it came to choosing between serving the users vs. the advertisers the latter would always win in t…
What is needed is some kind of distributed infrastructure like Usenet, which is not owned or controlled by any one entity.
(http://www.eternal-september.org/ if you want your own free text-only feed)
2) The evidence here is slim
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What outrage? Serious question, I wasn't even aware there was one recently.
Look up "Pepsi Riot Commercial". There was a brief and short-lived outrage against Pepsi for a distasteful commercial where a (generic, but people attribute it to BLM) riot was ended by giving a police officer a can of Pepsi. Or at least, that's what I gathered from reading about it on random comments from unrelated threads on Reddit because I'm out of the loop myself. E: Twitter? Meant Reddit. Unimportant change.