Read my quote again:
“Last year, United forced 3,765 people off oversold flights and another 62,895 United passengers volunteered to give up their seats,” http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_UNITED_PASSENGER_REMOVED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-04-10-16-50-32
3,765 FORCED off oversold flights, not counting those NOT forced.
Can you? I showed they had the right to deny boarding. You are asking me to prove a negative- that they *dont *also have a unwritten right to deplane or give triple wedgies. They have the right to deny boarding. Where does it say they have the right to deplane?
and I showed a cite saying: “a heck of a lawsuit…That’s a compelling suit”
his field is representing air travellers, and he is saying anything he can to make one side look good and the other side look bad-that’s the field he is an expert in.
Can you show me where they do have the contractual right to deplane?
Most of those appear to be people suing cat owners. If you’re badly injured by someone’s cat and they won’t compensate you, a lawsuit isn’t out of the question.
I’m a communist; in my ideal world “private property” would not exist as a meaningful concept.
But for the time being, we’re still living in a capitalist world. And we can make improvements to make it suck less until such time as we can abolish private property in the means of production, but we have to remember that capitalism functions by a certain internal logic, by a certain set of incentives, and we have to consider what the impacts of the changes we want to make will be in the world that is, rather than the world that we want.
I mean, we can do things (such as abolish state support for private property) with the stroke of a pen right now if we really wanted to, but without a lot of preparatory work that still has to come so that society’s not so dependent on the concept of private property, doing so would be utterly disastrous.
Inasmuch as you can’t have a “free market” without “private property,” and you can’t have “private property” without state enforcement of property rights…what is supposed to happen in your “market” solution if someone refuses to respect someone else’s property rights?
And not one of them got compensation because deboarding is not the same as deplaning? I’m shocked!
Yeah, i dont think by “forced” they meant dragged down the aisle by police.:dubious:
From that same site: “Bridges said United should not have boarded the flight if it was overbooked.”
**Should not have boarded. **
yes
you don’t know this
even if it were the airline’s fault, it’s still possible that the solution they chose was in fact the best that could reasonably be done
The point being that the number of google results do not make a legitimate point.
who said they didnt get compensation? Who said they were deplaned?
So far, the 20,000+ people on the United FB page would disagree with you.
OK, that’s a fair point. I did enjoy the images that search brings up.
After all these years, after all the times people have been deplaned instead of deboarded…don’t you think one fucking lawyer would have tried this tactic to get compensation? What the hell do you think you know that they don’t?
Especially if the search is done wrong.
The phrase “man sues cat” gets only 852 results. 
They may well have. Can you show they have never been sued for that?
How many times has a airline forcibly removed a passenger just to bump him?
That noted aviation lawyer says you’re wrong.
Where’s *your *cite?
If you were to guess how many of those were actual flyers instead of anonymous me-tooers, then how many of those flew that airline, then how many of those would carry through on their threat instead of just doing whatever was cheapest and/or most convenient when the time came to book a flight, what would be your best guess?
One silver lining to this brouhaha: in future, passengers will respond with alacrity* when airline personnel announce they’ve been selected to be bumped and must leave the plane.
*as in the case of those zeppelin passengers when sternly reminded by Indiana Jones about what happens when someone doesn’t have a ticket. :eek:
I just looked up “man sues airline deplaning boarding” and got no hits at all. Any hints on how you would look up such a thing?
About there being no cases where people were wrongly deplaned under deboarding rules?
Where did he say that?