This would shut up almost anyone.

compliments like you have noted, wasn't cheap. And the good doctor can retire with no financial worries. ( At least that is what I think, don't know for sure)

i'm glad doc stood his ground as a paying passenger. The airline handled both the incident, the coverup, and the post-fallout horribly. This should teach them a good lesson that treating the paying public this way will be costly and damaging to their brand and pocketbook.

I'm sure Demetrio got the good doctor more than he imagined. Plus he got United to implement a lot of changes that will benefit all of us, inluding upping the top end of the bumping offer from $800 to $10,000, and "promised it will no longer use officers to forcibly remove paying customers from its flights." http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/27/news/companies/united-airlines-dao-settlement/index.html?adkey=bn

Not sure if it is THE Corboy. But they are the chicago heavy hitters.

Usually you have to lose both legs or have a piece of a big building fall on you to get them to take the case

There is no way United was going to let this go to embarrassing depositions, let alone trial. The only question was how much United would pay to make Demetrio go away.

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very large settlement.

It has to be an expensive proposition for them to consider doing this again.

I bet they wish they had offered $800 or $1000 in vouchers until someone voluntarily gave up their seats.

Meanwhile, United has been in the news for abusing other passengers and killing a pet rabbit.

No free cocktails to get off the plane! Wow, shame on UNITED AIRLINES that sucks so bad it is not funny and oh yeah, what about the injuries that I sustained the very last time ever I traveled? They denied it all and could have cared less.

I hope you ROT IN HELL UNITED AIRLINES BECAUSE YOU SUCK!!!

It's got to be off the charts for this to have concluded this quickly. The attorney's would have had an amount in mind and had no incentive to take less.

In the future though to completely avoid it they need to set aside 4 to 8 seats for use for United personal and they wouldnt even have to lose money by doing it as they could still sale the seats with a provision that if they need to use them then the passenger who bought the seat will have to take a seat on the next available flight.

Shouldn't they be going after the TSA as well? It was the airport security that assaulted Mr. Dao, after all. Not sure if they were working for the TSA or some other agency.

Not only the airline but the man that was not even employed by United is the one that dragged him down the aisle. Fired. Uh huh ... doesn't he have a price to pay to like attempted manslaughter dare I suggest?

And yes what about TSA and all of their service people. Where were they when they were needed? Sue them too.

And not only that what about Homeland Security -- do they not have a role in this as well.

There are many more involved in this and they are covering it up with a big bucks pay-off. I suspect he got a large pay-off to shut-up.

I think he should have the lawyer sue the other parties involved as well however!

the prosecutor ought to press criminal charges against those airport security goons.

if not then Dao's lawyers should sue them in civil court.

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