Ellen to United Airlines: 'Don't overbook your flights'

Ellen DeGeneres let United Airlines know exactly how she feels about their overbooking rules that caused a huge scene this week.

“There was a United Airlines flight in Chicago that was overbooked, and to make room for people, they forcibly removed one of the passengers — did y’all hear about this?” said the comedian on Tuesday’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show. “It’s crazy, they charged him a $50 removal fee. That’s not true, that’s not true. No, your first forcible removal is free.”

“Everyone on the flight was very upset by this,” she said, “and top of it all, the in-flight movie was Manchester by the Sea. So it was very depressing, the whole flight — can you imagine?”

“They had a computer pick a random person and just took them off the plane,” she remarked. “That seems like a bad policy. Here’s a better policy: Don’t overbook your flight.”