Re:A man wouldn’t leave an overbooked United flight, so he w...
by cmurf on Monday April 10, 2017 @05:15PM
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It's hilarious to me people engage in blaming the victim over this.
At a particular moment it's $800 and voluntary.
At the very next moment passenger is subject to forced removal.
This makes no sense. And I also see nothing in the contract of carriage that permits it.
The airline can deny boarding, but this person is physically inside the airplane having used his boarding pass for the purpose for which it exists: to facilitate boarding the plane. He is boarded. He was not in any way denied boarding. Rescinding that status is not listed at all in the contract of service.
Second, this is deeply uncivilized. The airline invited violence for a civil, non-criminal dispute resulting from their own planning negligence, and their own unwillingness to provide monetary compensation that anyone on board thought was reasonable.
And the police have liability here as well for agreeing to become violently involved in what is ultimately a monetary dispute.
At a particular moment it's $800 and voluntary. At the very next moment passenger is subject to forced removal.
This makes no sense. And I also see nothing in the contract of carriage that permits it.
The airline can deny boarding, but this person is physically inside the airplane having used his boarding pass for the purpose for which it exists: to facilitate boarding the plane. He is boarded. He was not in any way denied boarding. Rescinding that status is not listed at all in the contract of service.
Second, this is deeply uncivilized. The airline invited violence for a civil, non-criminal dispute resulting from their own planning negligence, and their own unwillingness to provide monetary compensation that anyone on board thought was reasonable.
And the police have liability here as well for agreeing to become violently involved in what is ultimately a monetary dispute.
Shame, shame, shame.