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Re:How United Airlines Went from “Friendly Skies” to Throwin... by acchow on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:11PM (#14109486) 

  like Ryanair which charges for every possible amenity and slight convenience.
We've decided we like price discrimination (why charge every ticketholder for a bag of pretzels when we can charge only those that want it instead?). But we don't like violence or aggression.

I think the "new norm" of low-cast airfare we like is the price discrimination - not the violence.

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Re:How United Airlines Went from “Friendly Skies” to Throwin... by tyingq on Thursday April 13, 2017 @02:17PM (#14109541)
A little more is coming out about how violent it was:

"The man who was dragged off a United Airlines flight suffered a broken nose and concussion and lost two front teeth"

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-live-stream-david-dao-...

And the United CEO seems to have finally clued into the right message:

"We are not going to put a law enforcement official to take them off," Munoz told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Wednesday. "To remove a booked, paid, seated passenger -- we can't do that."

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