United Airlines is under fire yet again after one of its passengers was violently dragged off an overbooked plane on Sunday.
Angered by the videos and pictures of the incident, people on Twitter dragged the airline for its terrible mistreatment of the passenger. Some compared it to “Fight Club:”
United Airlines is pleased to announce new seating on all domestic flights- in addition to United First and Economy Plus we introduce.... pic.twitter.com/KQjPClU2d2
— McNeil (@Reflog_18) April 10, 2017
.@united #flight3411 Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to United Airlines' Fight Club. If you won't leave, we'll make sure you do. pic.twitter.com/xaGiUEVi2O
— zenszeiwa (@zenszei) April 10, 2017
First Rule of #unitedAIRLINES You do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of #unitedAIRLINES is: You do not talk about Fight Club
— MoMoneyMoCatnip (@ChampagneDosser) April 10, 2017
Others took a different approach:
BREAKING: #United announces a new spokesperson. pic.twitter.com/10rUy7hwqB
— Jason C. (@CounterMoonbat) April 10, 2017
This must be @united 's training video pic.twitter.com/yeqjCv55Z8
— Jack (@JackHTX) April 10, 2017
When you on a overbooked @united airlines flight... pic.twitter.com/il4opwlYab
— Santorini Grease (@AdrianNeenan) April 10, 2017
Wow now is not the time United pic.twitter.com/VzCoL30xZA
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) April 10, 2017
Looking forward to my @united flight later this week. Will bring a lawyer, just in case.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) April 10, 2017
Somewhere on Cable News: "Last night, United Airlines became Presidential."
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) April 10, 2017
After all of this, hopefully fellow airline passengers learned one thing:
The moral of the story is don't fly #United without a Pepsi.
— Travon Free (@Travon) April 10, 2017
United Airlines’ CEO, Oscar Munoz, also endured the wrath of Twitter for his use of the term “re-accommodation” in his apology for the incident:
Statement from United Airlines CEO on its 're-accommodation' of passenger on Chicago-Louisville flight. pic.twitter.com/cocD3XY4f9
— Byron York (@ByronYork) April 10, 2017
@ByronYork Looks like they re-accommodated the crap out of him
— AJ Spiker (@AJSpiker) April 10, 2017
@ByronYork "Re-accommodate" Sure. Re-accommodate by the scruff of the neck.
— GK Chesterton Tweets (@GilbertCTweets) April 10, 2017
Sounds like a job for a crisis PR agency.
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