Men Who Gave CPR To Dying United Passenger With COVID Given $200 Flight Vouchers

The $200 irn't a reward, it's minimal compensation for the medical expenses that the two would have had. A coronavirus test alone costs S100-$200.

The other issue is that the victim had recently lost his sense of taste and smell and had been having problems breathing but didn’t disclose this to the United representatives. He had no right to be on a plane!

I hope we don't get to the point of thinking about the possible reward for doing the right thing as human beings.

These two people who reacted and tried to save the man's life deserve big a thank you. I don't know if the Airline has a reward program for people who step up in a crisis but they really don't have to do anything so the $200.00 is a nice guesture. People saying it's not enough have to realize it is more then these people expected.
As for the COVID19? Hopefully the FAA reviews this incident and finds out were the system needs to be improved. obviously there is a gap in their screening as this gentleman should not have been flying.

airlines have in their emergency kits on board,not only the electrical heart stimulators for emergncies and oxygen,but many other things in the emergency kits,including those plastic mouthpieces which are used to give cpr.mouth to mouth without actual physical contact on a persons face..these people saw a person in distress and jumped in to help,as a lot of "first responders" do,without thought to their own well being..i applaud them and ual should give them more than a $200 voucher,but cover any medical expenses they might have due to covid exposure,and give them free flights for life if they so choose!!!

Obviously well done by selfless volunteers. If I were UA, I'd grant them lifetime travel passes.

No good deed goes unpunished

I was on a Lufthansa flight a couple of years ago and an hour into the flight a passenger fell and split her forehead open. Captain wanted to know if they should turn back but the medical kit had all kinds of good stuff in it and I sewed her up and told them keep going. I didn't even get a thank you from Lufthansa let alone 200 bucks.

Someone at United took a foolish action, something done by average dull people everyday everywhere. United could have sent a nice thank-you letter, recognizing that the real reward for these guys was saving a life, even if that life was of an inconsiderate idiot who endangered and inconvenienced his fellow travelers in the airport and on the plane. Or they could have recognized the magnitude of the good deed and rewarded them more appropriately with something like two first class tickets around the World or similar. Would have been great publicity for United too!

That's corporate America for you. During the economic downturn with millions of people unemployed, sick, hungry, in pain and despair, the government subsidizes your industry with billions of dollars to keep paying your employees. What do the corporations do? Downsize, furlough, cut benefits, reward executives with outrageous bonuses, buyback their stock... and throw good samaritans a couple of hundred crumbs.

Top Marks for the two guys who went to the aid of a fellow human being, but sad that just a $200.00. voucher was all that they got for their kind brave acts ? $2,000. would have been a much nicer gift by the Airline to have offered I think, but maybe that's more than the Airline could afford.......

Instead they could have given him a free Covid test and a free Vaccine shot right there!

Money must be tight at UAL. A round trip ticket would have been nice. LOL

Roger that Tim!

Another own goal for United. A nice letter of thanks would have been a lovely gesture. This is more like leaving 25 cents as a tip to show that you didn't like your server's work.

Why was he on this flight ? The heroics notwithstanding.

analyzing the gifts that united gave to the samaratans ought not to take very long. A more useful reward would be to follow up on the medical conditions of each man and then to offer something of substance then. A passenger got on a United flight that medical screening did not detect, then had adverse, then a fatal reaction. United believes no good deed goes unpunished, but its not our fault. The best safe remedy is not to fly , period. for we can not depend on the good will or the competency of :United Air Lines.

Something to realize...it is virtually a mathematical and statistical certainty that at least 8 or 9 other passengers on that flight were positive for Covid-19. They were either prior to symptoms or asymptomatic for the duration of their infection.

Well at least they gave them the vouchers and will let them use them. Obviously they had to remove the mandatory face mask to give CPR. The airline could have banned them for life because they removed there masks.