A lack of planing on United's part was not his problem no matter if he was a retired plumber from Akron.
You are right. Makes no never mind, actually, except that this ‘doctor’ thing plays so strongly in the outrage and excuses.
The facts still remain that the entire cabin was advised of the airlines rights as published and they would have to ‘choose’ which passengers had to leave and be compensated.
If you think one person’s right to sit in a seat takes precedence over a whole other flight that crew was supposed to serve, then I don’t know what to tell you. Perhaps he could have explained the ‘urgency of is doctoral duties’ and made some progress. My read and viewing of everything says that he was on the phone to his lawyer when he refused police orders to vacate. What happened afterwards will most certainly be litigated to this man’s heart content and he will profit. But my read of his ‘speciality’ in medicine tells me it really had nothing to do with it.