Fook United Airlines

[CS1983]

Let's play a game...

Dr. Dao is instead LCpl Smith, hot off the bird from Astan. New baby he hasn't seen. 14 days, use it or lose it. Being delayed puts him a whole day away from family due to the scheduling of picking him up from the airport. He wants to get home ASAP. He gets bumped involuntarily.

Fuck that guy, right? Pound sand, Lance coolie... you have no RIGHT to fly and no one GUARANTEED you shit.

I bet there'd be righteous outrage.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I bet there'd be righteous outrage.

Outrage? Yes. Even legitimate outrage. A legal right to that seat? No.

I'm sympathetic with all four who were involuntarily deboarded. That wasn't being denied boarding, it was being deboarded. However, that is a completely different item from having a legal right.

Let's take your scenario and say that because LCpl Smith stands his ground and the airline in question can't get their crew to the next airport (leaving aside there are other options the airline might have taken to get them there), SrA Jones, Spec4 Snuffy, and OS2 Brown are similarly delayed at the next airport and are unable to see THEIR families. They weren't deboarding those passengers to accommodate some Hollyweird celebrity (and even if they were, it's still the difference between legitimate outrage and a legal right to something).

It's also different from violent resistance to being asked to deboard. Seeing Dr. Dao was a refugee from the Communist takeover in Viet Nam makes his PTSD understandable but it still left the security officers with someone who was reacting hysterically.

Did you see anyone using a billy club in the video? Lash out with a right cross or upper cut? I didn't. From what I could see, they went in to try to escort him off and he went berzerk. How exactly is that on the airline?