United Airlines, unbeknownst to many customers, has recently begun offering additional incentives to get passengers on overbooked flights to take a later plane. According to an airlines spokesperson, these perks are offered with the customer in mind and are “for their own damn good.”
From here on out on overbooked flights, passengers will be offered a number of enticing incentives – from money to vouchers to free mixed martial arts lessons with a security team.
Two days ago on a flight out of Chicago O’Hare, Dr. David Dao, a 69 year-old doctor from Kentucky, decided to go with one of the newer incentives.
“Dr. Dao wanted the more physical option,” a flight attendant revealed, “because he’s checking things off his bucket list. You don’t hear that part on the video, but he said he...
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