If I was forcibly removed from a seat that I had paid for in good faith, I would object as well. If it were the police removing me, I would not get violent, but I would be prepared to sue. United and the other airlines are brazen in their contempt for their customers - when I go into a store to buy groceries, I do not encounter store employees running up to me as I leave the store and grabbing things that now belong to me because their fellow employees would like them. That’s usually called theft, and the airlines practice it with impunity, while the police stand ready to aid them.
BUMP for most intelligent post in this thread.
“I do not encounter store employees running up to me as I leave the store and grabbing things that now belong to me because their fellow employees would like them. That’s usually called theft, and the airlines practice it with impunity,”
I’ll go out on a limb and and say I bet they dont sell your purchases to multiple other customers in case you dont use yours either.