By Danni Button Thanks to a battle with Ellen Degeneres, the airline is planning a major upgrade Comedian and talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres has had a mostly good-natured rivalry with United Airlines going on five years now. In early 2017, several celebrities and TV personalities publicly criticized the airline for the removal of a passenger from a flight after the United Airlines Holdings (UAL) – Get Free Report company overbooked. On an episode of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”, DeGeneres opened with her own thoughts about the incident. “There was a United Airlines flight in Chicago that was ove…