gatt wrote:

The best way to solve this problem would be to take the CEO, shoot
him through the head and hang his corpse from a Wall Street lamp
post so that every other executive out there remembers, for
example, why the french still celebrate Bastille Day. But we
can't do that.

Which CEO would you do that to? The one who oversaw things at the
airline many years ago and set the stage for the current problems, the
later one who saw the problems coming, and tried to change the way the
company was run, but was forced out by the union representation on the
board, who said he was too pessimistic, or the current one who inherited
the whole mess and has been trying to turn things around, but had no
alternative but to declare bankruptcy?

So boycott United forever and make sure that the rest of the executives in
the aviation industry don't try to pull the same stunt on America's pilots
and airline industry workers.

And just who do you think that would penalize? The original owners, the
shareholders, have already lost everything with the bankruptcy
declaration. People owed money, like the fuel vendors, the caterers,
and other contractors might only get a few cents on the dollar, if that,
if the company is liquidated. Finally, the employees would be forced out
of work, and any existing suppliers would lose a large part of their
businesses. It seems that boycotting the airline would only hurt the
people who were least involved with the whole situation. Is that really
what you want to do?