Senate Subcommittee To Look Into Current State Of Airline Travel
The recent passenger-dragging incident at O'Hare will be front and center Thursday in D.C. during a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing.
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The recent passenger-dragging incident at O'Hare will be front and center Thursday in D.C. during a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing.
House Transportation Commitee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) said "something is broken" and the airlines all agreed they can do better.
Dr. David Dao's attorneys announced the settlement Thursday afternoon, but terms were not disclosed.
United has outlined 10 policy changes in the wake of the incident on flight 3411 on April 9, when Dr. David Dao was dragged off the plane.
A 3-foot long giant rabbit named Simon died in a pet holding facility after landing on a flight from London to O'Hare International Airport.
The aviation officers say they used "minimal force" and that the passenger was the aggressive one. CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports.
Ald. Raymond Lopez has introduced a measure to fold the CDA security officer force into the Chicago Police Department's airport detail.
United Airlines executives said Tuesday that it's too soon to know if last week's dragging of a man off a plane is hurting ticket sales. The chief executive said no one will be fired over the incident.
Mayor Emanuel condemned Monday the manhandling of the United passenger by the city's Aviation Police, but he's declining to say yet what will happen next with the Aviation Police Department.
United Airlines and the city of Chicago have agreed to preserve evidence in Dr. David Dao's case.
They say they are "infuriated" by what happened and blamed the debacle on the "grossly inappropriate" actions of the security officers.
The vice president of United's Chicago hub came to City Hall to offer an apology for the incident seen on social media.
Dr. David Dao, the man dragged off a United Airlines flight, suffered a "significant concussion," a broken nose, and lost two teeth.
From Capitol Hill to City Hall, lawmakers are trying to get answers on just how the United overbooking debacle could have happened.
Two more officers involved in the decision to drag a passenger off a United Airlines plane over the weekend have been placed on leave.
"We are not going to put a law enforcement official to take them off there," United CEO Oscar Munoz said on "Good Morning America."
"I deeply apologize to the customer forcibly removed and to all the customers aboard," United CEO Oscar Munoz said.
An alderman wants to question United Airlines and Chicago Department of Aviation about why a passenger was dragged off a flight on Sunday.
United claimed a man who was dragged off an overbooked flight was being "disruptive and belligerent," and the airline defended its employees
A Chicago Aviation Department police officer was placed on leave Monday, after dragged a United Airlines passenger off an overbooked flight.
A man was dragged off an overbooked United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville on Sunday, after he refused to leave voluntarily.
CBS 2's Marissa Bailey talked with United representatives and got to the bottom of what really happened.
United Airlines says regular-paying flyers are welcome to wear leggings aboard its flights, even though two teenage girls were barred by a gate agent from boarding a flight from Denver to Minneapolis on Sunday because of their attire.
A north suburban Muslim family filed a lawsuit alleging United Airlines was discriminatory in asking them to get off a flight.
United Airlines says it's adding new destinations in smaller cities this summer including Champaign.
