• residentmarchant@lemmy.world
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      The “article” is like 100 words and just restates the title in more words.

      Maybe the only information it adds is that they won’t target passengers under 18

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      Yup.

      My last flight a year ago was so bad I’m just going to drive from now on. I don’t care if I have to take an extra day of PTO.

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    I already dislike the experience of being with other passengers on United. Nothing negative occurred on my part, just noticed how badly behaved other passengers were compared to every other airline I’ve flown.

    My point is, I wouldn’t pick United to fly as my first choice.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world
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    I wonder how long it will be before they start giving discounts on tickets for interacting with the ads a certain number of times during the flight.

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      Never. The whole ad craze is there to milk profits on top of the things you already paid for.

      What you are suggesting would actually be a more fair system.

      Free with ads or paid with no ads.

      Asshole corporations want paid and ads.

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    Remember when the assholes at United overbooked a flight and sent someone to knock a doctor’s teeth out and carry him off a plane? The doctor refused since he was on his way to oversee the opening of a clinic he founded for veterans.

    He and his wife started the clinic as a way to thank American servicemen and women, because he was plucked out of ocean waters by the U.S. Navy as he fled communism in his home country of Vietnam about 44 years ago, he said.

    Fuck United Airlines.

    https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/doctor-dragged-off-united-airlines-flight-watching-viral-62250271

    • DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      United will kill your dog, bust up your guitar, and knock down and drag out your doctor. They’ve made the headlines for all three of those. And the guitar guy made a song about United.

      Unfortunately, the other airlines aren’t much better.

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      I Vaguely recall that in the dystopian world depicted in the Max Headroom TV series it was illegal to turn off TVs. It felt bonkers to me when I was a kid, but now it doesn’t seem too far off.

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    For those of you contemplating ways of covering up the ads:

    This is the same airline that beat the shit out of that doctor because the airline overbooked the flight. For your own safety, do not cross this airline.

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      The Chicago Department of Aviation did that. The same way if the police ends up killing someone, it was not the person calling the police.

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        United was booting passengers to make room for employee transfers though, the situation was shit before dept of aviation even got the call.

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          Sure, but telling someone to leave their plane for some oddball reason is “only bad” not outright crazy like what happened then.

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          Those employees could have stood. Frontier and Spirit give vouchers out when they intentionally overbook…which before the pandemic was everyday. If nobody takes the bait, they up the voucher value. For them it’s essentially monopoly money.

          If United couldn’t get anybody to bite at the vouchers, then the employees should have stood the whole flight. Instead, they beat a man who was not fighting back physically. He only insisted that he get to his patient. They LITERALLY dragged him off the plane. By his ankle, as he tried to grab onto anything he could.

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            If United couldn’t get anybody to bite at the vouchers, then the employees should have stood the whole flight.

            Yeah, that is not a solution. The FAA is salivating at the thought of this. Everyone must have a seat for takeoff and landing.

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        it was not the person calling the police.

        At this point anyone calling the police in the US is a necessary accomplice, and guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, aggravated battery, and probably several other crimes.

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        “If you don’t like it don’t fly”

        Seriously just shut up.

        Edit: LMAO just saw your other comment where you actually said this sincerely. You’re a parody of yourself.

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          You can, there’s a button combo. It changes sometimes but if you spam a few things I can always black it out

          But that’s not the point, it still sucks

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        Have you ever turned a screen off on one of these planes? They turn back on. So you turn them off again. Sooner or later, they turn back on. And repeat.

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          I have. It usually stays off until they rig the cabin for final approach. Comes back on for landing but hey, whatever?

          I’m getting beaten up for my stance here, but seriously: if all it takes to put you over is some midflight ads the do the rest of us a favor and don’t fly. Take a train or whatever.

          Y’all are acting like they’re gonna strap us down and tape our eyes open like that Alex Whasisname kid in A Clockwork Orange. I assure you that doesn’t happen for another 22 years in this timeline (give or take).

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            I don’t think you’re being beaten up for it. I certainly am not beating you up for it. But usually, yeah, the screen does come back on during the flight. I think they turn it back on automatically every time there’s an announcement. As somebody who finds screens like that very distracting and even migraine-inducing (the “busyness” of that sort of thing is a big trigger), it’s really frustrating.

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            Depends on the plane and system it has. Last United flight I was on it stayed off the entire flight. I use my phone and generally don’t look at it anyway but it was nicer I suppose.

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            People like you constantly give corporations an inch because “it’s not a big deal” and here we are.

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            I honestly couldn’t care less how many adverts they show me, they can have a constant stream of adverts the whole flight if it means that some shitty corporation is paying a portion of my travel coats.

            People really need to grow up about stuff like this, if you don’t want adverts then pay for a premium service - I’m poor, I’ll accept the adverts.

            • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              Here’s the thing: companies have learned they can add ads to make additional money without passing any of that on to their customers.

              If you think you’re going to get a better rate for having ads, you’re fooling yourself. They’ll always charge as much as they can get people to pay and that amount isn’t affected by ads most of the time.

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              That money isn’t subsidizing your flight cost, it’s increasing corporate profits.

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      Overbooking should be a mandatory minimum compensation of the greater of 1000x the ticket price or $20k. It’s a truly fucked up practice to disrespect people’s time like that.

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    The Ad Algorithm

    It knows when you are sleeping It knows when you’re awake It knows when you’ve been bad or good So consume for goodness sake

    Fuck this.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      nodding off? time for a bright ad with super saturation and lots of brightness variability, they’ll strobe you into paying attention.

      how much do you have to pay to turn the fucking thing off?