Man violently removed from United Airlines plane. ~Update~ United may have broken the law.

[Machiavellian]

deskpro2k3 said:

It's time for the Government to up the bump price above $1300.

And that fact that United Airlines didn't even offer the maximum amount is effed up. Overbooking, trying to be cheap, and then calling security is three strikes.

As I had some time to kill I actually looked into the matter.  So the company that runs this particular flight is Republic Airlines.  So the planes are United but the company is an affiliate who actually do the service.  Also the flight was not overbooked, it was sold out.  This is a huge difference and may come to bite United even though they were not servicing this flight.