[confederatecarpetbag]

“Airlines don’t need to be justified”

So you’re saying it’s ok for an airline to arbitrarily eject you after you’ve been checked, boarded and seated?

[LouieFisk]

“So you’re saying it’s ok for an airline to arbitrarily eject you after you’ve been checked, boarded and seated?”
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I took it more as “was the use of such force justified”? The rest doesn’t matter.

[PJBankard]

Have you ever been in a taxi? Let them tell you to get out and you refuse.

[ALPAPilot]

Regardless of whether or not United should have asked him to deplane, once he demonstrated that he would refuse to comply with crew member instructions, the captain wouldn’t have much of a choice but to have him taken off the airplane prior to departure.

If you are not willing to comply with crew member instructions, you shouldn’t be flying.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

So you’re saying it’s ok for an airline to arbitrarily eject you after you’ve been checked, boarded and seated?
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Just passing on what I’ve been told, which is that the airlines can, under certain circumstances, require randomly selected passengers who are already boarded and seated to relinquish their boarding passes and deplane. If true, it’s something I was not aware of either.