“Once everyone had boarded, and there were no takers, they should have regarded the plane as already started on its flight. “
Uh no. That’s when they go to bumping people. Which isn’t a new policy or practice.
People can like it or not, but they aren’t going to say “oh well, that whole other flight that needs to be staffed is just going to have to be cancelled because we are short one seat on this one to get the staff there”.
Other people took the offer. No they were not happy, but they still did it. This was the one person that they had to bump.
Uh, the company has now committed suicide. Policy, schmolicy.