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[quote=Anonymous]Since this whole thread is a groupthink exercise and because generally I believe it, i will take the other side.

1.  Every ticket you buy comes with a disclaimer that they overbook.

2.  They tried, as most flights to, to get people to take the deal to get off the flight.

3.  No takers.  They had to get the crew to the destination or they would have cancelled the flight and inconvenienced a hundred other people.

4.  After no takers, they chose at random.

Could they have paid more or should they have paid more - YES.  Without question.

That said, he bought a ticket with this condition baked in.  Every ticket that anyone has ever bought has this condition.   You are not flying private.  It is not your plane and you don't make the rules.

When somebody from the airline tells you to get off a plane, you get off the plane.  That would have solved this problem very quickly.  Take the $800, maybe even negotiate but this chaos could have been avoided.  Of course it is inconvenient but very little about air travel is convenient.

United has a mess on its hands without a doubt and somewhere they crossed the line to forcible removal which was horrible judgment but at the same time, this guy had a personal responsibility that he didn't live up to in this case.  [/quote]

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