Physician removed forcibly from United flight after overbooking--UPDATED

[Grins]

132. United does this ALL THE TIME! EVERY flight.

United does this ALL THE TIME! On EVERY flight - they overbook. And they are not the only airline to do this.

They overbooked on a flight I was on Washington, DC to St. Thomas in the USVI last Feb. On the outgoing flight they were begging for people to give up seats and accept a voucher.

Of course, a full outbound = full-inbound, amiright? The begging to accept vouchers began on that end, too, about 90-minutes before departure. Every few minutes that $100 became $200, that became $300...that became $600....

When it got there, about the price of a great hotel and dinner for another night in the islands, and me being time-flexible, I almost took it. But then I found out that you could not get a reservation on another outbound flight - because those flights were also all overbooked!

This was a Saturday; they estimated I'd get out on TUESDAY! Maybe. So not one night, but likely three or more nights and I'd wind up losing abut $1,200.

Nope. And screw you United!