Machiavellian said:
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. |
yes, next time maybe try reading a bit beforehand.
It has been known since the story emerged like 2 days ago that it wasn't an overbooking. It was simply the airline last minute wanting to fly some of their employees. Good luck United with that holding up in court.
just for the record- the concept that arbituarly an airline could have you board a plane, get into your paid for seat, and then say "hey, omg, we want to fly a few of our employees instead, give us your seat" is so ridiculously crazy that it blows my mind. It is not an accepted precedent as is and certainly shouldn't become one.
This guy has a fantastic case when you combine the incredibly poor reasoning United had for taking his seat AND the means in which he was removed from the plane (which, again, as far as I know there are no rules about physically removing a paying customer from a seat for absolutely no real reason)
