The Twice-Weekly Flight That Got a United CEO Fired
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Where's the brick video? WE WANT THE BRICKS VIDEO SAM
Wait I meant how the ceo of Porsche was arrested for nazi association for designing tanks and making “the people’s car” which ended up becoming the biggest car company in the world Volkswagen. I’ll take my shirt now
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Hi
Hey! I didn't know everybody here was also from Cape Girardeau too!
Neighbor Marge?? Is that you??
My sister owns a fruit stand In Perryville we are all Missouri
its especially as am not owo (i sound like i can be woooshed, but i get the joke tho)
I go to SIU but I go to football games in Cape when the Salukis play Semo!
Hello there fellow Cape Girardeauan!
imagine actually being a viewer from Cape Girardeau Missouri
TristanTheBeepBoop I live an hour away from Cape and I’m excited!
I used to live extremely close to it
Oh man, let me tell you how shocked I was to see the town where I live at the start of this. I had to go back and restart the video because o literally thought I was going insane.
Me
I have already done this for six minutes.
As one employee of many that worked this flight, we always wondered why this route was even in service. IT WAS ALWAYS EMPTY. I specifically remember the lowest amount of passengers I had on that flight one day. It was 3. THREE passengers. Usually on a “good” day, it was around 25 passengers. I actually really liked flying this route due to the lack of passengers and because the layover was longer than normal domestic flights. A normal domestic flight would have anywhere from a 12-18 hour layover. With this flight however, we usually got 30 hours since it ran so infrequently. I’m actually glad this came upon my recommended videos today. Brought back some memories! Memories of a Waffle House (guilty pleasure, don’t judge lol) and a Country Inn & Suites. I remember when the news of this broke. I wouldn’t say I was surprised..more of a “That makes total sense!”, type of reaction lol. I had validation that I wasn’t crazy thinking that we really didn’t need to be flying this route as it was a total waste of money. Anyway, just thought I’d share my experience lol. Good times....I suppose lol. Can’t say I remember running into Samson on that flight. Never really paid any mind to who was sitting up in first class or economy for that matter since it was a rather short flight. Thanks for the trip down memory lane lol! You’ve got a new sub!
That's pretty interesting, was David Samson consistently on the flight?
@@projectorion8186 they said they couldn’t remember running into samson on the flight
@@mikenike-zd9zp sorry I missed that🤦♂
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So I live in Aiken, South Carolina and it's just like he described it. Small and lots of horses. So when I saw that my sleepy little town was in this video, I was at a loss for words. My shock was astronomical. I never thought it would be in a video. And he pronounced "Aiken" correctly, so good job HAI and thank you for this. It made my day.
Bruh, I grew up There
you’re lying, i know for a fact you live in Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Edited the comment and you still messed up the first sentence.
Honestly its always a bit of a shock when our state is mentioned at all. People often overlook SC unless they're talking about the Civil/Revolutionary War or Dirty Myrtle.
I have a vague memory of living in Aiken, but surely that couldn’t be true. I and 462k+ people live in Cape Girardeau, Missouri
As someone who lives in South Carolina, I can confirm that no one flies out of Columbia's airport, but alas, I live in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
18inti
I am being humble when I am telling you that I am the most powerful strongest coolest smartest most famous greatest funniest RUclipsr of all time! That's the reason I have multiple girlfriends and I show them off on my channel all the time! Bye bye into
AxxL shut up
AxxL yeah sure you do.. and humble? not even close. get a life. these self promotion things never work
@@AxxLAfriku K
2:02 for some reason it really pisses me off that the plane missed the destination
Fakts
I was just amused by it, but I'm happy to see other people noticed as well.
Runway overshoot.
Must be like Northwest Airlines flight 188, pilots were looking at their computers and were so distracted they overshot their destination by more than 100 miles.
Joe R M PAPI lights were off
When you acully live in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
Now who here lives in dodge city?
@@ABXInferno *get the hell outta dodge*
i acully live there
We all actually live in cape Girardeau friend.
Bruh
Friend: where have you lived?
Me: Well, I lived in Cape Girardeau, Missouri for 6 minutes
Cape Girardeau only has 40,000 people, so the population became a lot higher when this video came out.
That's at least two hours too long.
Editor: Hey, maybe this week we could try something diff-
Sam: *_₽ Ł Ä Ñ €_*
Come on, it's been 5 videos since the last one about planes.
@@slightlycrookedworkshop Wich is about the same as airlines that went bankrupt during that time lol
Also Sam: Makes fun of Newark
His name is Sam?
AH YES PLANE
Hai: mentions Newark airport
Roasts incoming in 3..2..
Nobody likes Newark Airport. Not even New Jerseyans.
@@toadofsteel I f'ck'n love EWR, and I'm from NJ. Sure, it's horrible, but it's better than JFK and LGA.
I like the rude staff and birds that fly around!
As a former New Jerseyan who now lives in California, Newark is 10000% times better than LAX. LAX is a nightmare. The devil has nightmares about LAX.
@@elliez.3561 Seriously. And getting to JFK alone can take 2-3 hours.
I don’t think anything at Cracker Barrel is gluten-free. Not even the souvenirs.
I got diabetes from the peg game.
I miss breakfast at Cracker Barrel since I got Celiac disease and have to eat strict gluten free diet, because I'm now so allergic to gluten that not doing so would kill me.Miss having a good chicken fried steak with country gravy too.
Smisek was nominally fired due to this scandal but it was really the straw that broke the camels back. His absolute incompetence in merging United and Continental was the real reason he was fired.
So was it a bad idea to merge em or did he do it poorly
@@alterbennet5420 Both, in my opinion.
I come here for the nostaligia of remembering we used to have airplanes
Have you paid your respects for all of those small airlines slowly dying out today?
Same I miss the game ‘outside’
@@Jake-rm4be
Yeah, the beautiful graphics, well the storyline is a bit weird, but I love the game
Yes man that was so long ago I might only be young but I can’t remember the days of airplanes 😂. Seriously though that made me laugh HAI pin it
i dunno about you but i still see a steady, neverending stream of airplanes landing at the airport near my house
If he was rich enough, why didn't he just buy himself a private jet to go to his vacation home?
Because that would have been HIS money, not NJ taxpayers' money.
@@ianr.1225 It wasn't the taxpayer money. The taxpayer money paid for the subway extension that he was holding up until he got something out of it. It was the airline's money that paid for it so he would stop holding up the subway extension.
@@raynmanshorts9275 The funny part is that the subway STILL doesn't go to Newark Airport. It only goes as far as Newark Penn Station, where you need to connect for another train. They're still building the airport extension THIS YEAR.
didnt get rich by using his own money now did he?
Rich?? He worked for the Port authority lmfao, hardly a millionaire job 🤣🤣
Five minutes into this, and I still trying to process what Cape Girardeau, Missouri has to do with anything ...
I would deduce that it and dodge city both have municipal airfields served (at government expense under EAS) by United Express, and the air route between the two is excessively lengthy. What’s more is that you can get to Columbia direct from LaGuardia on both American and Delta Connection. What I’d like to know is why he wanted to fly into Columbia, when Augusta is far closer, and doesn’t have competition to New York.
This the first time in my 20+ years living in Cape Girardeau that someone who doesn’t live there has mentioned it.
Same. It felt great
Flight planning is the least of United's problems.
Mike Fuquay - you mean FIGHT PLANNING in the UNFRIENDLY SKIES?
If the dude was that rich then he should have just bought a G5. Lol
or even a private biplane honestly
Or ANY OTHER private jet! Phenom 300, Latitude, Lear75 etc
No, rich people don't spend their money, at least not as much as one would think since as we saw in this vid, for having the right connections they just get things. But yeah, capitalism is totally fair and everybody can make it xD
Why pay for things when you can get other people to?
Politicians aren't really allowed to get rich until they're out of office. It looks really bad being a zillionaire in office, usually. Which is both good and bad; good that we shut the stupid sons and daughters of billionaires out of politics, but we're also shutting the most successful people in our society out of leading it, too.
It's official: Whatever Newark Airport did to Sam, he will never, *ever* forgive them for it.
true
I think they confiscate his "WHATEVERHEWANTED"
There is a bus that runs every 5 minutes to transfer flight crews and passengers to the correct gate. I found this out by sitting next to the pilot for my flight (which changed gates and terminals 10 times in the past 5 hours) when he explained that his walking out to the end of a jetway and finding that his plane was not there was a common occurrence. The pilot, flight crew, and gate agent were all not told that the plane was actually in a different terminal.
@@tyrannosaurusimperator Good grief.
it existed
Fun fact: there isnt a cracker barrel in dodge city
You're lying, how would you know? You live in Cape Girardeau, Missouri
...much to Dodge City's credit.
xD I used to live in Wichita Kansas besides wheat fields there isn’t much 😂. I now live is St.Ger.....
I dont know, I dont even live In 'merica
@@imeepp2959 no I dont, I'm British
And yet despite the horse mansion and bribery the worst part of this story is that he wanted to fly United.
Probably the only airline corrupt enough to make the deal.
@@gregorychase7050 It's the only major airline with a hub there. His other option for flying into Columbia was UPS Airlines (the only airline with a hub _there_), which is a cargo airline.
Just imagine how more corrupt scandals like this are occurring without anyone knowing.
where there's power, there's corruption, sometimes it'll lead to positive things, sometimes it leads to this colossal waste
It's happening everywhere. The corrupt only get the slap on the wrist when they cross someone higher up the food chain
especially in other countries
in all fairness, this was airline fund being used to further the interests of the airline
shareholder money was spent on shareholder interests. there's no way of knowing if this was a good purchase for the airline. $10,000 per week may seem a lot to burn, but the cost of lawyers, lobbyists and everything else that goes into getting a line extension may have been far greater than running an extra flight for a few years
@@truth.speaker Oh for sure, I'm not sure I'd call this corruption by the airline, but definitely by the politician.
Hey! As somebody whose local airport is Newark International, I’ll have you know that everything you’ve said about how terrible Newark Airport is is patently, blatantly, completely, and entirely...true. 😭
Newark is perfectly OK as a connector, i.e. flying Europe-Newark-Salt Lake City (or San Juan PT). I've been through it 30+ times and only once did I ever leave the airport/United lounge while waiting.
@@TerjeMathisen newark is depressing enough to fly out of so i can't begin to imagine the horrors of connecting through that cesspool
@@the.abhiram.r Newark is fire because United is there. Think off all the planes that wouldn’t be there if United stop using it. I don’t care about the airport just the planes that use it and that they fly right over my house
2:26 The City Subway! Which is now a part of the Newark Light Rail. I used to live in NJ so I know all about that Newark Elizabeth Link project to extend the light rail to EWR. Only a very small segment of the project has been opened, the Broad Street line that connects Newark Penn to Newark Broad Street stations, the two major stations of the city. The project has last been cited in 2016 but the rest of it has basically been cancelled. The PATH EWR extension project however (since it’s in the background and owned by the Port Authority), that will still happen and begin service in 2025
Hi Avery.
"Pretend you live in Cape Girardeau, Missouri"
RUclipsrs in Cape Girardeau, Missouri:
*Observe*
“Why anyone would want to fly to Newark to begin with is baffling enough.” That cracked me up. I’m a native Bronxite and my dad once said to me, fly to LaGuardia or JFK or take a cab. I’m not schlepping to Newark to help you out. 🤣
This guys ability to sneakily transition into an add is hilarious.
I know right, it is hard to believe he is the same guy from Wendover Productions, since he is so serious in the other channel.
Linus Sebastian would like to know your location
@@federicomorrone9583 // He's not Linus, i doubt he will drop anything, much less his location. xD
@@rafaelalodio5116 wait Wendover productions? I don't see the similarities it's like he's a completely different person
He just is the best at these god damned transitions
I live in Europe. I've been in something like 50 international flights and yes, Newark Airport is the worst I ever visited. Not to mention this ridiculous Amtrak you have to take after that (now I systematically ask one pays me a taxi, this Amtrak is a prehistoric transportation device compared to European trains).
Not only do I live in cape girardeau, but I was walking downtown where the aerial photo in the beginning was taken when I first saw this video. Needless to say, I nearly freaked out in front of a bunch of old people who were just trying to walk their dogs.
People from Cape Girardeau: Now's my time to shine!
Well at least they made one customer happy
which is rare for United
It's funny because I literally do live in Cape Girardeau, Missouri!
What was your initial reaction to 0:10?
Greetings
I was looking for this comment
Nice
Well, we all do in fact live there.
0:19 I'm sorry but when they made that stock footage, how do they not notice the book is upside-down
It's clear that the filming crew, director, actors and everyone else involved was Australian
stock footage is just always one huge mystery
2:03 it was a very sad day when all those passengers died in a firey wreck far away from where they were supposed to be
0:57
This happens a lot with flights and is why people in less populated areas seem to always just suck it up and drive between those smaller towns
I met Smisek a few times while a contractor in Houston (this was before Continental Airlines and United Airlines merged) he very much was a shifty guy then, unlike his two predecessors that were CEO of Continental Airlines before him) - oh, and it's pronounced Sm (like "small") Eye-Sec (like "secretary").
His undoing by this was perfect ends to what he did to the company overall. And of course the Port Authority has continued to have corruption, even after the guy was removed (aka "Bridgegate")
Lol my dad got rewarded by him at a gala in Chicago the year he got axed, even then there’s a photo of the two together and he looked shady as hell and fake.
21s after posting, thank you RUclips got its notifications better. Thanks for the vid!
Lame 21 min
Yay 23 minutes late notifications
“2 hours from his creepy horse mansion”
Never heard that phrase before
"Two hours from" means "about 120 minutes from"...surprised you haven't come across it before.
4:31 “...our judicial system is built to bring law breaking billionaires to swift and uncompromising justice...”
Yeah, this is easily the most incorrect sentence I’ve ever heard.
The point
👉
Your head
I heard the same thing about Hartford (UK) railway station, which was saved by closure as it was the local station of one of the members of the British Railways Board, who commuted from there to London regularly
let’s see how he brings Toyota Corolla into this joke.
wait wrong channel
Would’ve been funny 2 years ago lol
The big funnys
Newark in a way has 2 subways. One is PATH to Jersey City, Hoboken and New York. The one you showed close up is the former city subway run by NJ Transit from the basement of Newark Penn Station. Totally different.
Per Cape Girardeau to Dodge City, there's Amtrak service St Louis to Dodge City with a connection at Kansas City.
The only time I've ever been to Newark was about 20 years ago, when I was 16. I was actually going to NYC but the flight was rerouted. Only 6 people were getting off the plane in NYC so, the airline decided to hire limos to drive everyone to their destination.
I went to a Popeyes in Cape Girardeau while on a road trip once.
I'm sorry
"Saving the planet is everyones duty :)" whilst this CEO organises a plane to fly every week just to save himself 90 minutes.
what? have you actually seen the video?
Wrong guy.
2:06 that plane seem to go to Atlanta international airport instead which I guess is from a past video animation
Even animated airplanes feel a homing instinct for Atlanta.
Did anybody notice that the airplane animation at 2:01 went far past the CD International Airport
The plane crashed/landed probably in Alabama lol😂
As someone who’s flown in and out of Newark on numerous occasions, this hits home lol
I've totally taken one of these flights. I went down to Georgia and had a connection in sc it was cheap as hell and I had a whole row to lay down on haha. I still can't believe it. There was like 10 other passengers.
0:41 can we just acknowledge that he is gorgeous please
that was my first gay thought that made me click on this video
Got family that lives near Cape Girardeau, and we go there every year!
Near Charleston?
Cape girardeau’s only commercial flight now is to Chicago and Dodge city’s is now to only Denver
I can confirm that there is a small airport in WV that at one point, years ago, according to the OAG Flight Guide, had three flights per week IN, and one flight per week OUT. I figured that every airplane in the world would end up there unless we could build at least two new ones every week to replace the lost ones :-)
Wow you finally made an aviation video! This is awesome, never seen you done this before
I spent the whole second half of the video wondering why I should care about Newark and Aiken when I'm living far away in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
This video make me big happey!!!
me to
same here
Trenbolone makes you happy?!
Me to the big happy
Fun fact: Smisek means funny guy in Czech
His great-grandfather was from Horní Bukovsko.
Gosh!! Your transitions especially in HAI are just phenomenal.......I was, for a sec, shocked to think Computer science knowledge could really help in setting a deal with United airlines!!!
I just got to say. I love the hook and transition from your informative section of your video to your promotional for the advertisement
Yooo I work at Cape Girardeau’s airport and can conform our flight schedule sucks and our town is crusty
Oh, so that’s why the subway comes over to here in New Jersey. Gotta admit, it’s pretty handy
Pretty sure he’s talking about the Newark Light Rail, since the pic is from there
And that subway has a name, it’s called the PATH. But since he showed two different things I guess we’ll never know what project he’s talking about
Lego Wagfles
PATH stands for Port Authority trans-Hudson. Yes, that Port Authority. PATH goes as far south/west as downtown Newark. The airport is further south of there. United wants direct one seat train access to the Big Apple instead of people transferring several times.
Very good! Entertaining, especially how you connect it seamlessly to Brilliant!
I live in Columbia and this video was a revelation to me. Because anytime I’ve had to fly, I have to drive up to Charlotte even though we have a decent airport here.
It always astonishes me when people don’t just drive short distances 😂😂 but I live in Texas and a 10-14 hour drive is normal and we haven’t even left Texas yet 🤣🤣
Just saying, United could have farmed it out to sky west and flown it on a 37 seat Dash-8, 25 people would actually have made a profit.
I wonder if this was specifically avoided because it may raise suspicions at SkyWest.
@@g-man3785 I don’t think it would have mattered particularly, because they would be getting a nice cheque from United, and not a suspiciously small amount of people on such an aircraft on such a route.
Ah dang it, I live in Paducah, Kentucky. I guess I'll have to wait and watch next week.
Just imagine the social bubble your live in to imagine that a weird flight like this couldn't get any attention
I thought this was about Manchester United but forgot this guy was american.
I think he's actually a Canuck
And he’s the plane loving HAI, so of course it’s the airline United lmao
@@TSNam Huh, reallly? How come he always has such US-centered videos?
@@DantevanGemert the demographics on RUclips are mostly United States, so he does what retains viewers.
Was the CEO of Manchester United fired due to a twice-weekly flight? I want to hear that story.
0:49 *"Get the hell out of Dodge" really comes into play here*
Correction: The City Subway (light rail) you showed isn’t the PATH, they are two different things. The light rail and PATH both had projects to be extended to EWR
Someone really need to make a compilation of all the times Sam has roasted Newark at this point
1:19 niqqa called it niche flight routes
Didn't realize how large the island in bend of the river had gotten. Pretty cool to see it from above instead of from the bridge
I love how a comment of a guy who lives in Cape Girardeau is on top of a comment from a guy saying imagine living there
The most famous guy ever from Cape Girardeau now lives in south Florida.
2:00 The airplane slightly overshot Charlotte, no?
4:25 What law-breaking was he doing by running a flight in his own company that lost money? Like I get being fired because United wouldn't have liked that very much, but I don't think it's breaking any laws to do that. No more than if he had a private jet and wasted all that time and fuel himself.
Bribery charges maybe?
@@X.Y.Z.07 Maybe. I know it's illegal to bribe a govt official, but I don't think it's the same to bribe a CEO. But maybe it doesn't matter since they were both in it? idk.
Deceiving the shareholders
@@crazy808ish but it was though, United CEO basically bribing the official to sign off the light transit at Newark by offering the flights
Great narration.......loved his video.
I like these...I live in NJ...I subscribed after the comment about Newark Airport...Why indeed!!!
Creepy Horse Mansion is my favorite Frank Zappa album.
4:30 Very convincing actor
I live in Columbia and there are plenty of flights from Columbia to New York, but most of the nonstop flights are to LaGuardia.
I remember when this was going on, never trusted him even before the scandal came to light. Also, love the shade you throw at Newark… not a fun place to connect
Last time I was this early I could go outside :(
Who else is still confused everytime HAI, Real Life Lore and Wendover Production upload a video?
Like "Is this the Planes dude the bricks dude or the Toyota dude?"
Are all of them the same?
HAI and Wendover are the same person.
Knee gga - nope, Real Life Lore is a different guy. "Sam The Snark" do have both Wendover and HAI...
I always avoid looking at the title just to see how long it takes me to figure out what the video is about
I live in Augusta and work in Aiken. Horses are a big deal in Aiken and the local airport is constantly filled with Cessna Citations, Gulfstreams, and, strangely enough, Mitsubishi MU-2s. I don’t know why the guy just didn’t get his own plane
When this whole lockdown narrative runs its course, I'm gonna go on a trip to Cape Girardeau. Any suggestions for tourists?
As a programmer, I have to say it’s nice knowing how some things work. But it can seem to take the magic out of it sometimes as well.
Wow, I am pretty sure the Atlantic City flight United briefly did in 2014-15 to Chicago and Houston were also favors for him because they stopped at the same time.
I love how the narrator is sarcastic and very informative at the same time
You know, the older I get the more I think that the business world is just like an elementary school playground when I hear stories like this....
Well, it mostly consists of people who've never been told "no" in their life so it makes sense they'd act like small children
When united airlines is involved you know roasts will take flight.
I love being in the northeast and seeing a 600 mile range in Missouri not even make it out of kansas where my 200 mile range would pass both boston and New York easily and even pass Portland, Maine
Hi i love your channel, and i really like to suggest a theme: make a video of the Mexican license plates, in Mexico is similar to USA, where every state has a different license plate design, but here when a new state government begins, the entire state updates the license plates design in every car, some times putting the design of the partly government, making a really mess and a way to recollect money from the drivers. Some times in four years, the license plate design changes tree times!!!
He always tries to find a way to insult Newark airport.
Is EWR really that bad? I have never flown there, but I hear it’s terrible. Is it worse than JFK?
Edit: So it which is the worst of the 3 NY airports?
I mean, define "worse." For me JFK is worse because I live in Newark and it's quite annoying to fly into or out of JFK requiring at least two hours and three trains. I also had my longest wait ever at JFK in security, topping anything I've every seen in Newark, but JFK is a nicer airport and if you live if NYC or Long Island it's connected well enough.
Eh, I consider it a better experience than LGA, mostly on par with JFK. Hm, I guess that's not saying much.
All New York airports are bad
Newark is good if your flying United, because they have redone their terminal. Anything else is a drag because the airport is smaller and crowded. For people who live in NJ, it is a 20-45 min ride, while JFK can take 2-3 hours. JFK has worse security and it can be harder to get around, but otherwise they’re about the same. LaGuardia is definitely worse than both.
@heartofdarkness19 Well, I’ve been to JFK and it was awful. It took an hour to check in our bags and another hour to get through security, and half an hour to the gate. We also drove from Boston-5 hours. My definition of worse is length of time, aging if any, and infrastructure.
i could literally see my house, my job, and all key points i go to in that map XD
God I've been in dodge City and we'll it feels good to have it mentioned by one of my favorite RUclipsrs
almost every nj/ny port authority official has been absolutely awful in some way. Karen Turner and David Samson especially.