United Airlines is facing millions in federal fines for failing to properly accommodate travelers with disabilities on numerous occasions. The U.S. Department of Transportation said this week that it is fining the airline $2 million in response to disability-related complaints in 2014. An investigation found that United did not provide proper assistance for passengers with …
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United Breaks Dignity
Oh United, will you never learn? A United passenger with cerebral palsy was forced to crawl from his airplane to the gate when the airline’s staff took away a special wheelchair needed for just such a case, reports the Los Angeles Times. D’Arcee Neal was on a flight from San Francisco and urgently needed to …
United Breaks Stomachs
A couple celebrating their anniversary got a lovely present to mark the occasion thanks to a United Airlines airplane cleaner who didn’t quite live up to his job description. A couple on their anniversary trip to Hawaii said they found a full barf bag in a blanket in the seat-back pocket in front of them, …
United Breaks Basic Cleanliness Standards
Family forced to sit in vomit on United flight No, that’s not some headline writer editorializing on the state of airplane food. Literally, these people had to go all butts in the barf seat because nobody from the crew bothered to clean things up between flights. Yes, I said between flights. So it’s not even …
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United Breaks WWE
United Airlines has gone and lost something important belonging to someone important again. This time it’s Dolph Ziggler’s luggage, complete with WWE Intercontinental title. Hopefully he gets it back in one piece. United doesn’t exactly have the best record when it comes to that sort of thing. WWE Intercontinental champion Dolph Ziggler has been writing …
United Breaks Cats And Dogs
Actually, make that United *bakes* cats and dogs. But, according to Sinclair, her pets were not safe. In fact, she says, the comfort stop nearly killed them. As she sat in her window seat looking out onto the tarmac of George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Sinclair says she saw a cargo employee kick Sedona’s …
United Breaks Hygiene
If just one airline is going to forget to bring toilet paper along on a 10-hour flight, you just know that that airline is gonna be United. That’s pretty gross and terrible, you’re saying. I wonder how those poor people managed all that time without proper shit tickets. Well, the United crew, helpful and resourceful …
United Breaks Geography
I was thinking to myself the other day that it had been a while since United Airlines broke anything. Have they finally started to shape up or have I just not been on the ball enough, I wondered. Of course, this being United, the answer is a resounding column B. An English Springer Spaniel named …
United Breaks Dog Life Expectancy
Oh United, you endless source of material you. The 140-pound Mastiff traveled from Miami to San Francisco via Houston in August. The owner had made the trip with his pet before with no problems, but on an 85 degree day in Houston, he was horrified to see that Bam Bam the dog was transported to …
United Breaks Families
Whenever a bad airline experience ends up posted here, it seems to often have something to do with United. Sure as shit they’re at it again, and this one will be hard if not impossible to top…at least I hope. They didn’t just lose luggage or treat people very poorly this time (although both of …
