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Old 04-10-2017, 12:54 PM   #48
ernie
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Originally Posted by FurnaceFace View Post
All airlines have their cases.

Flying back from Dallas recently AA asked for people to volunteer. We thought this was because there was a family of 4 who they were trying to get on the flight. There was a group who did volunteer and we thought that was the end of it. We board and there are multiple empty seats and the family is nowhere to be found. They needed to boot people off the flight because it was too heavy with cargo. Shipping product was more important than humans.
Yes all airlines do this. Only one so far has a video of forcibly removing a paying customer who did NOT volunteer to give up their seat. In some cases the cargo is likely more important to ship.

They had volunteers I'm guessing on the flight you are talking about. Not a good practice but no one is hurt or mad about the situation. And I still see this a lot more with United flights than I do with other airlines in my travels through the airports (6 of airports in the last week! Fun!).

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