United Airlines blamed the door plug blowout on a Boeing 737 Max jet for a dismal quarter, saying the incident cost it $200m—and it wasn't even on a United Airlines flight. Boeing's woes are echoing throughout the industry, from the worldwide grounding of its suspect jets to insiders going public with embarassing and alarming claims about cost- and corner-cutting. — Read the rest

An external panel was seen to be missing from a United Airlines flight after it landed in Medford, Oregon yesterday—a Boeing 737-800 carrying 139 passengers, all oblivious to the in-air incident. The problem was only uncovered during a post-flight inspection.

The missing panel was next to the landing gear, on the underside of the aircraft, according to images of the aircraft on social media.

Have you seen the new Christmas "movie" that United Airlines recently released? It's called "Love in Plane Sight" and on the United YouTube channel, you can watch what they call the "Full Film," which makes it sound like you're actually about to dive into a movie, but in fact, it's a not-quite-six-minute "rom-com short," featuring everything you love to hate (or just hate) about every cheesy Hallmark Christmas movie. — Read the rest

In 2018, April Gavin traveled from Chicago back home to Oregon on a United Airlines flight. Unfortunately, the airlines lost her suitcase along the way. After several months of waiting, United finally told her the bag was apparently lost forever and paid her for some of her missing belongings that were in the luggage. — Read the rest

Five passengers on a United Airlines flight to Houston, Texas landed in the hospital after "severe turbulence" tossed the plane around. (Today's unfortunate news comes after several dozen people were injured yesterday due to turbulence on a Hawaiian Airlines flight.) The Houston flight was en route from Río de Janeiro. — Read the rest

United Airlines lost $1.6 billion in the second quarter of 2020. This is in sharp contrast to its profit of $1 billion during the second quarter of 2019. According to the New York Times United "lost an average of $40 million a day in April, May, and June." — Read the rest

United Airlines announced it would be canceling scheduled flights to China beginning in February, citing a "significant decline in demand," reports CNBC.

″We will continue to monitor the situation as it develops and will adjust our schedule as needed," United said in a statement.

A passenger's bag slides into a United Airlines test compartment with ease, but the employee pulls it out, then sets it down on the test compartment at an angle to prevent it from going in. He shrugs and says "Rules are rules." — Read the rest

A puppy died on a United Airlines flight Monday after "an attendant forced the animal's owner to put the pet in the cabin's overhead bin."

United Airlines barred Dexter, an emotional support peacock, from boarding a flight at Newark International Airport on Saturday. From the Washington Post:

United Airlines confirmed that the exotic animal was barred from the plane Saturday because it "did not meet guidelines for a number of reasons, including its weight and size."

In the cosmology of bureacratic evil, United Airlines is the prince of Hell.

Minutes before departure, already buckled into her seat, she was ordered to leave the plane. The gate agent told her that her reservation had been canceled. Traveler Help Desk, the online agency that sold the ticket, had rescinded it because the landlord made a change directly through United — even though United had assured the landlord that it was not a problem to do so.

This is such a bizarre video that just surfaced on YouTube of a United Airlines employee at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston pushing a 71-year-old man to the ground, and then walking away. The man, passenger Ronald Tigner, was left motionless on the ground as people walked past him. — Read the rest

It hasn't been a good month for United Airlines – or, rather, its passengers. First Dr. Dao gets beat up by security while sitting in his United seat until he's toothless and unconscious, while on the same day a scorpion on another United flight stings a passenger in the hand. — Read the rest

Prominent lawyer Thomas Demetrio lambastes United Airlines – as well as all airlines and big corporations in general – for their bully culture in this outstanding speech at a press conference.

About airlines, he says, "They have the highest duty of care to provide protection and safety to its fair paying passengers. — Read the rest

United CEO Oscar Munoz said that passenger David Dao was "disruptive and belligerent" when he was told that he was going to be kicked off the plane after he bought a ticket and too his seat. But this newly released video shows Dao to be quite calm and reasonable given the circumstances. — Read the rest

Watch it – if you're not beat up in a United Airlines seat, you might get stung. At least that's what happened to Richard Bell, a passenger flying from Houston to Calgary on Sunday, when a scorpion dropped from the overhead bin, landed in his hair, fell onto his tray table, and then zapped him. — Read the rest

[NSFW: violence] This man's suffering is not a joke. United customer service is a joke. Background.

(United parody logo by @skolanach)

United Airlines had a passenger knocked unconscious and dragged violently from a full plane for refusing to yield his ticketed seat to an employee who wanted it. This is CEO Oscar Munoz's public apology, to those who needed to be re-accommodated. — Read the rest

United Airlines offered passengers $800 to skip an overbooked flight: there were enough seats for the paying ticketholders, but not for several United employees who wanted to travel with the plane. With no takers, they started picking people at random to eject. — Read the rest

Call it The Landmaid's Tale: two girls were barred from boarding a flight by a United Airlines agent Sunday, and the airline confirmed that leggings are against a dress policy it applies to people traveling on passes issued to employees and their dependents. — Read the rest