Except airlines have a need to move people around from hub to hub. It’s not clear to me whether this was an emergency that these employees had been stranded by mechanical failure or weather and they had to get to Louisville for their first flight the next day, or if it was employees f’ing around and taking up paying seats. I really thought deadheading employees were the lowest priority to be seated. I’d be surprised, but not shocked, to find out I was wrong.
United has been very coy in their description of what type of employee kicked the guy out of his seat.
When the jury trial is held, then we will find ‘or if it was employees f’ing around and taking up paying seats’