Re:United Broke Its Contract with Flyers
by danderino on Friday April 14, 2017 @10:36PM
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Kicking someone off was the right decision if it meant another flight was cancelled/delayed.
United didn't do anything criminal by asking him to leave. This is in fact the opinion of the article were supposedly discussing.
>To be clear, the fact that United seems to have breached its contract with Dao doesn’t mean its action was illegal, as the headline of this otherwise helpful article by a nonlawyer on a frequent traveler website suggests. There’s nothing illegal about breaching a contract. If you do so, you simply have to pay damages. Dao’s lawyer, Thomas Demetrio, said Thursday that he is investigating possible claims against United.
>And once United in effect told Dao that it was breaching its contract with him and told him to get off, he was probably under a legal duty to comply.
He should have left and contested the charges as a civil case.
United didn't do anything criminal by asking him to leave. This is in fact the opinion of the article were supposedly discussing.
>To be clear, the fact that United seems to have breached its contract with Dao doesn’t mean its action was illegal, as the headline of this otherwise helpful article by a nonlawyer on a frequent traveler website suggests. There’s nothing illegal about breaching a contract. If you do so, you simply have to pay damages. Dao’s lawyer, Thomas Demetrio, said Thursday that he is investigating possible claims against United.
>And once United in effect told Dao that it was breaching its contract with him and told him to get off, he was probably under a legal duty to comply.
He should have left and contested the charges as a civil case.