The scandal with the passenger cost United Airlines $ 600 million.

The man was pulled from the plane due to the fact that employees do not have enough seats.

Shares of the holding company United Continental Holdings, which owns United Airlines, fell on Tuesday, April 11, almost 3%.

During the trading session, the share price of the holding has fallen below a mark 69 dollars. for the security. In the course of trading the company’s capitalization on Monday, April 10, was 22.5 billion dollars. Later action has played a bit falling to 21:20 in Kiev the loss of capitalization decreased to 682 million dollars.

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Stock jump occurred on the background of the incident, which happened on Sunday, April 9, aboard a plane from Chicago to Louisville. In the cabin passengers said that the flight has sold more tickets than seats on the plane. In this regard, passengers were asked to vacate four seats for employees of the airline. The airline suggested as other alternative flight, compensation and accommodation for the night at the hotel. None of the passengers to the request not heeded, then on Board the militiamen entered and selectively asked four people to leave the cabin. One of them refused to comply, he was forcibly dragged out of the cabin, take him by the hand. The footage video that spread in the media and social networks, it is clear that the face of the passenger is broken and bloodied.

After that CEO of United Airlines Oscar muñoz apologized to the passengers of the flight. The U.S. Department of transportation stated that it is investigating the incident with the removal of the passenger from the flight and no review has yet been given.

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