United Airlines

Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) is a prime example of what is wrong with government.  Lee's sense of entitlement and self-importance is legendary dating back to 1994 when she was first elected to Congress. Jackson Lee, who has a history of throwing her weight around to get her way with airlines is at the center of a United Airlines controversy in which a woman was bumped from her first

Thousands of flights depart U.S. airports daily. Most of them reach their destination without incident.  When mistakes are made they can be doozies. There has been reporting in recent weeks about overbooked flights resulting in passengers being told they had to surrender seats they had paid for...

The removal of a man from a United Airlines flight this week has sparked a debate about flier's rights. The man, a 69 year old Louisville doctor was bloodied up while being removed from the plane by airport security officers. A case can be made that an airline can legally remove passengers if a flight is overbooked but did the way it was done create a public relations nightmare for United... Read

The last time my wife and I flew, we flew United. That was the last time we'll fly United. Last Fall my wife and I booked United Airlines to and from Las Vegas. It seemed to be a few bucks cheaper than our favorite, Southwest Airlines. We decided then we would never use United again...

A Muslim chaplain is claiming she was discriminated against on her United Airlines flight from Chicago to Washington Friday (May 29th) when a flight attendant refused to give her an unopened can of Diet Coke. Tahera Ahmad, who's Northwestern University's director of interfaith engagement and wears a headscarf, wrote in a Facebook post that went viral and led supporters to create a #unitedfortahera

Liberian officials are planning to prosecute Thomas Duncan, the Ebola patient currently isolated in a Dallas, Texas hospital. Before flying out of the country, all passengers must fill out a questionnaire that asks them if they have been around anyone with Ebola...

A United Airlines flight en route from Newark, New Jersey, to Denver made an unplanned stop in Chicago on Sunday (August 24th) after two passengers got into an argument over reclining a seat.