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Would be nice if flight crew asked folks not making connections to sit tight, but apparently UAL doesn’t do that. #unfriendlyskies<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Would be nice if flight crew asked folks not making connections to sit tight, but apparently UAL doesn’t do that. #unfriendlyskies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[334],"class_list":["post-38575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets","tag-tweet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133239,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/10\/well-theres-another-good-reason-to-avoid-flying-united.html","url_meta":{"origin":38575,"position":0},"title":"Well, there's another good reason to avoid flying United","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Apr-17 10:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because if they let you on the plane, and then decide they need to free up seats for some flight crew to deadhead to the destination airport, and nobody volunteers to get off, and they randomly select you to be booted, and you decline because of urgent matters at the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133273,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/15\/united-fixes-its-passenger-bumping-policies-kind-of.html","url_meta":{"origin":38575,"position":1},"title":"United fixes its passenger-bumping policies. 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