United Pilot Diverts Flight Due to Movie Complaint ???

I'm the first to admit people will over-react in many situations.

Reading thru the letter they wrote, the (guessing woman) actually said United "increased their carbon footprint" by diverting. Someone flying on an airplane is actually concerned about their carbon footprint? I dunno when I hear stuff like that I start to completely disregard everything else they say.

Sucks for UAL, bad press, but we weren't there. I'm sure management is reviewing their movie choices. Although my guess is the bad stuff was edited out, but you never know. No doubt I'm sure the Captain wasn't the one to make the decision to divert in this case, I'm sure they talked it over with DX.
 
For sure, I'm curious to hear what information the Captain was fed by the guys and gals working in back.
 
There is a whole lot of information left out of that.... nothing like news media that leaves out almost all the details and panders to emotions....
 
wheelsup said:
I'm the first to admit people will over-react in many situations.

Reading thru the letter they wrote, the (guessing woman) actually said United "increased their carbon footprint" by diverting. Someone flying on an airplane is actually concerned about their carbon footprint? I dunno when I hear stuff like that I start to completely disregard everything else they say.

Sucks for UAL, bad press, but we weren't there. I'm sure management is reviewing their movie choices. Although my guess is the bad stuff was edited out, but you never know. No doubt I'm sure the Captain wasn't the one to make the decision to divert in this case, I'm sure they talked it over with DX.
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Actually taking something like a 777 LAX-JFK has a lower carbon footprint than driving a prius the same route. PaxMPG.
 
z987k said:
Actually taking something like a 777 LAX-JFK has a lower carbon footprint than driving a prius the same route. PaxMPG.
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Yep, we had a pax that wanted me to figure out how many miles to the gallon we were getting on a 767 going across the country. It was something like 100 mpg per pax.
 
PeanuckleCRJ said:
Yep, we had a pax that wanted me to figure out how many miles to the gallon we were getting on a 767 going across the country. It was something like 100 mpg per pax.
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Factor in the crew and it's even better gas mileage.

If it weren't such good mileage on the jet, they'd have to take a train to the layover.

Oh, wait o_O
 
PeanuckleCRJ said:
Yep, we had a pax that wanted me to figure out how many miles to the gallon we were getting on a 767 going across the country. It was something like 100 mpg per pax.
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Is it really that high? I thought it was more like 26, which is still good considering the kind of vehicles most 'muricans buy. I was also in high school when I came up with that figure for the 747, so it's probably wrong. :) I perhaps I figured it per family of 4.
 
Well, on the other hand, I doubt they will complain on their next flight.

I have a hard time believing this whole story though.
 
ATN_Pilot said:
It's hard telling what the truth of this story is. But one thing is certain: those kids are going to be screwed up far more by their mother's insane overprotection than they ever would have been by watching a mediocre movie.
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Seriously, wasnt it a Tyler Perry film?
 
I looked up the movie on imdb, and it appears to be something that I, as a parent, would not feel it exactly appropriate for kids, from the movie description. However, I haven't seen it myself, so I can't really say. But I wouldn't rent the movie and watch it in front of my kids. It has a pg-13 rating, not an R rating, so it can't be *that* bad though... Airlines can't be expected to show only G rated movies on flights, so some amount of "deal with it" factor is going to have to be accepted on the parents' part.

The sound on airplane movies doesn't go over the PA system, so without headphones the kids won't hear it, and if an iPad/books/etc are brought along for the kid, their attention could be focused on those things instead of the movie screens high up on the airplane ceiling. I'm not familiar enough with airbus systems to know if it is or isn't possible to raise one screen without raising them all. They may be tied together, and not able to be raised individually.

And yes, this is totally one of those "I want to hear the whole story" kinds of cases. There's no way what we're hearing/reading here is the whole story.
 
There are always a percentage of people that will take any opportunity to complain about everything.

A couple days ago, we had an oversold flight and a group of four passengers were traveling together. The coach configuration of our specific airplane is 2-3-2.

So the gate agent gave the four passengers the middle aisle (of three) and a aisle seat on the "two" side.

The father waited until he boarded the aircraft in the last ten minutes of boarding to express how livid he was that the airline hadn't done more to accomodate their seating request to sit together and now his wife was distraught and the only resolution was to put her in that "empty" lie flat seat in business class.

Which is the cockpit crew rest seat.

Naturally, when the purser notified him that beyond moving the fourth passenger in a row in front of or behind the cluster of three, that's all we can do and we can't give his distraught wife the pilot rest seat.

I'm sure there's an angry quasi-factual quasi-fantasy letter being written.
 
MQAAord said:
I looked up the movie on imdb, and it appears to be something that I, as a parent, would not feel it exactly appropriate for kids, from the movie description. However, I haven't seen it myself, so I can't really say. But I wouldn't rent the movie and watch it in front of my kids. It has a pg-13 rating, not an R rating, so it can't be *that* bad though... Airlines can't be expected to show only G rated movies on flights, so some amount of "deal with it" factor is going to have to be accepted on the parents' part.

The sound on airplane movies doesn't go over the PA system, so without headphones the kids won't hear it, and if an iPad/books/etc are brought along for the kid, their attention could be focused on those things instead of the movie screens high up on the airplane ceiling. I'm not familiar enough with airbus systems to know if it is or isn't possible to raise one screen without raising them all. They may be tied together, and not able to be raised individually.

And yes, this is totally one of those "I want to hear the whole story" kinds of cases. There's no way what we're hearing/reading here is the whole story.
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Playing "Hotel For Dogs" nearly caused an international incident a few years ago. Crap you not.
 
Sounds like the reason was left out of the article and we are to be angered about other things and so what if we are led to believe that the plane was diverted because of a customer complaint? I see that crap all the time on the Internet.

As far as the movie is concerned...I don't know how inflight movies are screened for kids but did they really just show a plane crash movie inflight? Really??? That is usually stuff in satire. In fact, that kind of thing is in the movie "Airplane" just because it's so unbelievable!
 
JordanD said:
God forbid they have to entertain their kids to distract them from a movie!
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You're not suggesting parents have the ability to use their skills to shift a childs attention away from an 8-inch LCD display?

What kind of pinko communistic clap trap is that?!
 
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