Airline Passenger Removals
The cluster focuses on debates about airlines' authority to deny boarding, remove passengers after boarding, or ban them for various reasons, including specific incidents like United threatening a passenger with handcuffs for a higher-priority traveler.
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"denied boarding" seems pretty key here. What about when the airline decides you aren't on the flight in the first place?
Wouldnt you get banned from the airline in the future?
Seems appropriate if you're openly flaunting very clear rules from the airline.
On a plane, I would guess anyone trying to do this would be stopped by the stewards :-)
Bitch to the airline. Hardly the passenger's fault.
Does this mean they can still bump people off the flight at-will even though he already boarded the flight?
Legalities and contracts aside, I don't see why an airline would allow someone to board, and then remove them. That just can't end well.
This is not the gotcha you think it is. Multiple airlines, for example, have banned passengers from their flights for refusing to wear masks. They are well within their rights to do so.
Funny thing is these people don't realize that flying on a plane is a privilege not a right. They could be kicked off the plane for less than that, it's the company's plane after all, not theirs.
Most airlines reserve the right to remove passengers from a flight if they feel it is safer to do so. This happens all the time, and I'm sure from the perspective of the expelled passenger it's always "unfair." I trust you will follow your own principle and boycott every airline.