NO, ... THINK ABOUT IT -ITS NOT AS SIMPLE AS “THE AIRLINE JUST WANTED TO FLY SOMEONE ELSE”
If you are flying from A to B, and there is another flight from C to B that is cancelled due to weather or mechanical or whatever, then the airline may need to move a pilot and crew to B to replace the crew from C that could not make it there.
Otherwise hundreds of people at B may get stranded or delayed, and then thousands as that cascades outwards to other airports.
So.. it is simple- remove 4 people now, or have cascading problems outwards...
One viable future model that could arise from this is simply for each airline to reserve the last row of every flight for company use. If the company does not need that row on a particular flight, then the gate agent can release the row for standby travel.
-PJ
No it’s more simple...
The four employees who showed up late to get on said plane get an Uber... take a 4 hour car ride and go to work tomorrow.
This wasn’t the last helicopter out of Saigon.
The method of beating somebody up to get a seat for “your crew” isn’t going to fly.
This guy just changed the rules for everybody.
A simple alternative will need to be in place. If they can just arbitrarily beat you up and remove you, why offer any compensation in the first place?