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Imaginedvl on 11 April 2017
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Ka-pi96 said:
Imaginedvl said:

Rules are rules... And part of your rights are to follow them not ignore them whenever you feel like it.
Yes, in an airport (and a plane), when airport authorities or police request you to de-plane, you blindly agree because it is the law and you should be smart enough (the dude was not) to understand that you will get out of the plane no matter what (if you think are wrong or right about the decision does not matter at this time)...

Then after that you can sue, cry, act the way you want and defend your "rights"... But again, that's 2 different things.

You keep saying that, and you keep contradicting yourself. Peoples rights are laws as well, and they too need to be respected.

Besides, UA's refusal of transport rules don't even cover overbooked flights. Their denied boarding rules do... but the guy had already boarded the plane so it's too late for them.

Plus by meekly accepting some company trampling over his rights the guy probably would have just been told "you got your $800 compensation, now fuck off" if he'd tried to do anything after. Now however... well I don't think UA are likely to pull any crap like that again any time soon, so that's a positive for every person that travels with them in the future.

I'm not contradicting myself at all; you are just making assumption here about what United can or cannot do (I'm doing it as well) and there is no such rule for someone to do whatever they want and just ignore the company rules in that case.

You are talking like you know 100% sure that United does not have anything in their contract allowing them to de-planed someone after boarding, where did you get that? Also, on top of it you also assume the airport authorities know less than you about that? Because if they actually went for it, it is most likely because they knew they were in their right.

And again, the dude did not want to complain. You can call this his right, but then getting hurt in the process is just an accident. Because at the end, other than letting the dude do whatever his wanted and basically follows his own rules) the only end to this was for him to get out of the plane.