Thursday 13 April 2017

Like to send out a big huzzah to United Airlines and O'Hare cops for the entertaining performance that was delightfully captured in a video. Despite the uniquely splendid stupidity of a service company (some evidence exists that the airline may be unaware of this fact) treating a customer this way thus eliciting well-deserved condemnation, one might consider some context. Travel through an airport has been programmed to be as miserable as possible to assure the traveling public that everything is being done to make air travel safe. Many people actually believe this. Paying passengers aren't individuals with rights and dignity, but rather pawns in the more important game of politics. Although one wonders what algorithm was used to "randomly" choose bumpees after no one took agent's offers of $400 then $800 to wait for a following flight, the airline was operating in a more or less reasonable manner up to the point they allowed police goons to use force. The dead-heading crew were likely put on to prevent cancellation of a flight that would "re-accommodate" an entire plane- load of passengers elsewhere. Anyway, one appreciates such episodes (it was legitimate news because there was blood) as they are thought-provoking or alternatively help to enliven the otherwise drab, ovine existence of un- skeptical people who are more comfortable believing everything they're told.

Jack