The next time you are considering booking a flight, think about what United Airlines did to 90 year old World War II veteran Ewalt Walt Shatz. He was on his way to Honolulu from LAX for ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary Pearl Harbor. United Airlines decided to kick Ewalt Walt Shatz off the flight in order to accommodate the weight of additional jet fuel. Ewalt Walt Shatz eventually made it to Honolulu after being re-booked on an American Airlines flight which left eight hours later and had a layover in Maui. This is how United Airlines treats the elderly? This is how they treat World War II Veterans? Ewalt Shatz weighs less than 150 pounds.
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Shatz was traveling alone and suffers from macular degeneration, an eye condition that limits his sight. “They just left me kind of stranded. Here I’m 90 years old, and I don’t know — I really didn’t have anybody else I could call.”
Shatz said he was told by a United Airlines agent at LAX only two passengers on the Boeing 737 to Honolulu had been booted.
“I thought that they just overbooked the deal and they were trying to get rid of a couple of customers and somebody had my seat — and that’s what made me mad, because I paid for that seat. I paid for that seat and somebody else is sitting in it,” Shatz told WOAI News 4. “I was lost. I didn’t know what to do.”