I find it difficult to believe there are so many people who side with the perp on the plane instead of the security people just doing their job in an impossible situation.
Again; the perp only had two choices by the time the security people had arrived. Leave standing up like a man or like a baby being dragged. There wasn’t a third choice.
The airline had the authority and right to bump those people for the over all good of keeping the planes in the air moving people from point A to point B. The perp hijacked the plane when he make the decision to stay and be a baby about it.
In a just and honorable world this perp would serve time and have to pay a big fine. I hope it happens that way.
"...perp..."
The airline business is a customer service business. The passenger was boarded. His luggage was on board. The UAL manager came aboard and demanded four volunteers to deboard. When no one volunteered he ordered four passengers to be taken off the plane randomly. The 69 year old man was the third passenger ORDERED OFF the plane. He refused. The Manager called law enforcement and had the man violently removed.
You are telling me that UAL has no clue how many crew members they have to move around the country BEFORE they board the passengers? I call piss poor management on UAL’s side. I hope they have to pay dearly for this atrocity. How dare a US company treat its customers this way!
Note: I have no problem with the airlines informing passengers BEFORE they board that they have to take a later flight (which in this case was 22 hours later). If the passenger manages to negotiate a “deal” more power to that passenger.
Because United violated their contract of carriage.
While a passenger may be denied boarding for any reason... and a passenger may be removed for a whole host of reasons... there is no provision in the contract to remove a boarded passenger at random to allow United employees entry to a flight.
You don’t get to call the cops and yell ‘disorderly passenger’ after breaching your own contract.