I hope enough of us boycott United Airlines and it goes bankrupt

[Le Gaucher]

Nothing else will serve up a lesson to corporate overlords.

Not a lawsuit or having to pay millions upon losing - it's just cost of doing business for them.

Going bankrupt will hurt the executives personally by rendering their millions in stock options and RSUs worthless. And that it what they deserve.

[still_one]

1. so what do you suggest happens to the 80 thousand plus employees who had nothing to do with this?

[Le Gaucher]

2. They can work for other airlines that will take up United's Marketshare

Its not that people are going to stop flying.

I fly a lot on work ... mostly Delta though. The worst I have seen pales in comparison to this .. The way to handle overbooking is at the check-in counter and the gate. Not after people are seated. While printing out the boarding card, the system ask the amount for which i am willing to be bumped off the flight.. Then it picks the lowest among the bids.

[onenote]

4. You're beyond naive if you think that's what would happen to those workers.

Unless all of the other airlines' employees are working to absolute capacity, they won't be hiring new workers if they pick up additional routes and passengers -- they'll be adding to their existing employees' workload.

[cwydro]

3. Don't hold your breath.

Their stock was up 1% yesterday according to reports I read.

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Stock price and movement have virtually NOTHING. . .

. . .to do with events affecting a corporation.

What happens in the stock market is mostly psychological.

[dembotoz]

5. too many passengers too few flights...air service is crappy enuf

everyone is running very lean it seems
my best friend takes maybe over 40 business trips a year.
she is literally never home....flies enuf so she gets lots of upgrades cause the rest of the plane really is more cattle car

[Vinca]

7. All they understand is money. Don't give it to them.