United Airlines deprived a two-year-old child of a paid seat

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Teacher, 42-year-old Shirley Yamauchi, flying an airline flight United Airlines, I had to keep my 2-year-old child on the 3,5 lap for an hour, as his place was given to another passenger because of overbooking.

According to Hawaii News NowShe bought 3 plane tickets a month ago. At the same time, the place for the child cost almost as much as for an adult: almost 1000 dollars. From Honolulu to Houston, they flew without problems, and in Houston, flight attendants put another person in a place that the baby was supposed to take, claiming that he had a ticket. The employee of the airline replied to the woman’s displeasure that there were no more seats left on the plane and there was simply no place to transfer the man. As a result, the woman had to keep the child on 3’s lap for hours until the plane landed in Boston. She did not start a scandal because she knew about the numerous state of emergency that she fell into United Airlines.

“I had to put the baby on my lap. He weighs more than 11 kilograms. I felt very uncomfortable. My legs and left arm are numb,” Yamauchi complained.

She added that she was afraid to argue. “I started remembering all these incidents with the company Unitedthat were talked about in the news. Violence. How teeth were knocked out. I'm Asian. I'm afraid, I'm worried. I don’t want this to happen to me,” she said.

Five days later the company apologized. Representative United Airlines stated that the airport staff had incorrectly scanned the boy’s boarding pass and did not show in the system that he was checked in for the flight. Therefore, the place given to another passenger. The company said it would return money to the woman for the ticket, and also work with her staff to prevent similar situations in the future.

Recall earlier employees United Airlines dragged the man out of the plane due to the fact that the flight was crowded. Later, the passenger required plastic surgery. This incident cost the airline 800 million dollars.

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