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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
That isn't really what he was doing though. He wasn't standing up for passenger rights. He was saying; "I'm too important, pick someone else".
Personally, I see myself as an equal no matter what someone else's profession is. I would feel bad declining to be bumped knowing that they would have to pick someone else in my place. Any time I fly, I expect delays and plan accordingly. I would have accepted it as bad luck and then posted on the gear grinder thread.
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I'm not saying he made a stand for passenger rights purposely, but he kind of inadvertently did. My point was that its not really up for anyone to judge why this guy decided to hold his ground when most of us would have just left the plane. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. If it wasn't a hill to die on for you, great. Maybe you would enjoy another night where you are and some cash. This guy felt he needed to get home. He was only standing up for himself, but what's wrong with that? I don't care if he was trying to get home so he didn't miss the new episode of the Big Bang Theory or start a revolution against United Airlines, he felt it was important enough for him to tell United to f*** themselves, and I have to respect that.
I just think that, ideally, almost all of us would have liked to do this. I like that someone did, I don't really care about his reasons.