I’m shocked to see this update, though since documenting flights is part of what I do for a living, I’m very happy to see this change.
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Did you see "this is america"?
Apparently upskirt photos are also ok if you are a racist white Republican.
Eff Republicans. They all need to be in prison.
The new policy is good except if someone is abusing it and constantly taking photos of their seat mate or other passengers. So far, I never had that happen to me but I am hideous looking.
Nice to see the photo paranoia relenting a bit nearly 17 years after 9/11. It was crazy there for a while.
Is the plane a private workplace or a public place? United could treat it as a private workspace but I think they recognize that the public will videotape and they may have legal challenges preventing that.
Dr. Dao should have just walked off the plane. People got fired for doing their job because of him. It acted like a entitled brat screaming like a little child. If any of the "shocked" fellow passengers should have offered to take a later flight and this would have never happened. Now people are refusing to get off planes/have their luggage checked ect. As for photographing me my consent would be nice. I am also tired of the whole Camera in someone's face and the content is edited when it is posted.
I actually find Debit's posts reliably ridiculous/funny, but the sad part is there are people out there like @Antella that actually live in la la land and think like that. Whatever happened to education in this country?
Lucky, it's time to ban @Debit from this website. Enough with the negativity and lack of respect. This community is not a place for comments like his. Tiffany, please do something.
This blog is one of the few places where you can post racist things and get away with it...
Guess @Debit doesn't like whites...or is it just republican ones? As a black republican, I guess I'm safe...or is my skin color a problem too?
The revised policy is an improvement. However, the policy, in current or previous form, will have almost no effect on passenger behavior since only a handful of the one billion or so passengers who fly US airlines each year will even be aware that there is such a policy. Even those who know that airlines have such a policy won't do much, if anything, differently because of it. As far as I know, these policies aren't published where passengers would know the policy exists much less what it requires.
What actually needs to be addressed and communicated to employees is a policy on calling the police. For example a couple of months ago when a FA called the cops on a large Black woman at the request of a white passenger who claimed to have been the victim of a battery or something. The FA apparently didn't witness any behavior that she believed required police intervention but was just going off the white lady's request.
I don't see how any business has a duty to call the police and make a report on behalf of someone who is perfectly able to call the cops, report the allegedly criminal acts, and assume the responsibility for doing so. Some have this irrational and racist predisposition to call the cops over the most trivial matters when it involves other races. There have been several examples in the news recently including the person who called the cops because a 12-year-old Black kid and his younger relatives, who were cutting grass for a summer job, cut a small strip of grass that was part of the white neighbors yard. Do those people think calling the police is a way to assert their superiority and keep Blacks in place? One can only speculate. But airlines should not become a party to ridiculous stuff like that. If any passenger wants the police, the airline should have a policy to remind them the number is 911.
Tiffany this is a witch hunt. I have never posted anything these people are accusing me of posting. Thankfully your favorite poster has done nothing wrong. There is a deep state on these boards that are biased against me.
Witch hunt!
I have a somewhat different view.
Does UAL have a customer service issue?
1. I think the new wording is more realistic. Planes are not private workplaces.
2. I see this as UALs way of saying to all involved, employees and passengers, you may be recorded, so act accordingly.
Maybe it will improve service. Can't hurt.
@ Dan
“Dr. Dao should have just walked off the plane. ... It acted like a entitled brat screaming like a little child.”
“It”? Really? Maybe I should assume that English is not your first language, but it reads as if you are deliberately dehumanising another person: to do so in this way is pretty repellent.
Whatever Dr Dao should or should not have done, I’m surprised that you have decided to ignore United’s grovelling apology and their acceptance that they were completely in the wrong. Does that mean you think United’s senior management consists of craven liars?
As it happens, I might not disagree with you about that. But anyone who thinks in the Dao case that the level of violence directed at a distressed human was proportionate has an utterly screwed-up values system.
@debit is our resident troll. If you don’t like it, don’t feed the troll...
Maybe he’ll fly south for the winter. Go look at NYT or SFGATE comments. Makes him look like a civilized debater.