Except that giving up you hamburger ment the restaurant could follow through on their commitment to feed hundreds of others. And your purchas of the hamburger contractually gives the restaurant the right take the burger back im a case like this.
But what if you never signed/were told about having to give up your burger after you already received it ? And the only mention was they can take it back only before you've gotten it.
Buying a ticket through an airline means you have accepted their terms and conditions, which unfortunately, falls under giving up your seat/hamburger to the crew. If they hadn't overbooked they wouldn't have had this problem; yet they routinely do this to get the maximum number of tickets sold before the day of the flight. Still, they injured this doctor who had a verified excuse when they could have reselected the draw.
What if that wasn't in the terms and conditions, though ? People have been looking and can't find anything saying the company was within their rights with how they handled it, since anything about refusing someone to fly has to happen BEFORE boarding.
If they could just pick people to go they wouldn't have to offer compensation and could force anyone out when needed.
And it wasn't overbooking, it was staff who needed to fly who were getting their seats for free who needed to fly, not extra customers.
>overbooking in the sense: we don't have any seats left for the crew because /literally we have too many passengers/.
They didn't refuse the man to fly, they used a computer to determine which seats had to be given up. Before they did, they offered passengers $800 vouchers to take the next flight (as stated in the compensation terms). They very much can ask people to leave the plane in incidents like this as long as there is comp of at least quadruple the initial fare price of the first plane, capping at $1300.
However, since this guy was injured he does have the right to sue and may use his position as a doctor to explain why he wouldn't leave in the first place since he had patients to attend to that obviously could not wait.
United Airlines, just like all airlines, is a service and not a right! Airlines, just like restaurants, can refuse service to anyone as long as its not based on race, gender, sex, etc. This could have been handled better for sure but the the only one who broke any laws was the man who refused to do what the federal officers ordered.
You mean four?
If they could just pick people to go they wouldn't have to offer compensation and could force anyone out when needed.
And it wasn't overbooking, it was staff who needed to fly who were getting their seats for free who needed to fly, not extra customers.
They didn't refuse the man to fly, they used a computer to determine which seats had to be given up. Before they did, they offered passengers $800 vouchers to take the next flight (as stated in the compensation terms). They very much can ask people to leave the plane in incidents like this as long as there is comp of at least quadruple the initial fare price of the first plane, capping at $1300.
However, since this guy was injured he does have the right to sue and may use his position as a doctor to explain why he wouldn't leave in the first place since he had patients to attend to that obviously could not wait.