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Re:United Airlines stock losing $950M in value by guiambros on Thursday April 13, 2017 @08:49PM (#14111939)
It's wishful thinking. People love to think they have more influence over the destiny of corporations than they really do. And, of course, the media loves to pile on.

Sure, voting with your wallet, when done en masse and over a long period of time, can have a significant impact. But this takes much more than a few days.

What UAL did in this case was horrendous, but trying to associate it with loss of market cap is disingenuous. The market always corrects itself after the initial fluctuations. It will depend primarily on their earnings on Monday [1].

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/united-continental-ual-q1-earn...

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Re:United Airlines stock losing $950M in value by danderino on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:46PM (#14112597)
>What UAL did in this case was horrendous,

Was it?

All I see is that a passenger was asked to leave by an officer. He refused and was forcibly removed.

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Re:United Airlines stock losing $950M in value by metaphorm on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:57AM (#14114808)
creeping authoritarianism, more and more of it every day, and you just take it like ok, like it's a good thing. what ever happened to freedom and liberty? what ever happened to dignity and respect?
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Re:United Airlines stock losing $950M in value by guiambros on Friday April 14, 2017 @12:35AM (#14112715)
> Was it?

Yes, it was. Unethical for sure, and likely illegal [1].

[1] https://thepointsguy.com/2017/04/your-rights-on-involuntary-...

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Re:United Airlines stock losing $950M in value by sprremix on Friday April 14, 2017 @03:33AM (#14113154)
The flight was purposely overbooked. They randomly asked a guy to leave instead of taking their loss and offering the other people a big pile of money. He's also a doctor. Have you seen the video where he was knocked out from hitting his head at the railling from a chair followed by bleeding from his mouth?
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Re:United Airlines stock losing $950M in value by salesguy222 on Friday April 14, 2017 @08:06PM (#14118464)
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