Tag: Airlines
United in profit: Overbooking and violent removal all part of the service
Posted by John, April 12th, 2017 - under Overbooking, Profit, United Airlines.
Tags: Airlines
Comments: 2
United Airlines violently dragged a passenger off an overbooked flight in full view of shocked passengers, but it’s all in the fine print, I write in Independent Australia
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Not all deaths are the same – Part 1
Posted by John, March 25th, 2015 - under Partner violence, Women's liberation, Women's oppression.
Tags: Airlines, Domestic violence
Comments: 1
If only the 24 women murdered by their partners or former partners in Australia so far this year had died in a plane crash we might hear about them and have some debate about how to address this systemic issue.
Airlines, ash and arseholes
Posted by John, April 19th, 2010 - under Profits, Volcanic ash.
Tags: Airlines, Ash
Comments: 3
Guess what? It is OK to fly through plumes of volcanic ash. Independent investigators, also known as European airlines, have made this amazing discovery. The finding has nothing whatsoever to do with the tens of millions of dollars each airline is losing daily because of the Eurocontrol ruling that it is not yet safe to fly. […]