United Airlines forcibly removes a man from an overbooked flight

  MANY airlines habitually overbook flights, working on the assumption that a few passengers will always cancel at the last minute. By selling more tickets than seats, they can ensure their flights are full even when there are no-shows. Sometimes that calculation misfires and airlines have to bump passengers. There is a right and a wrong way to do this. The option United Airlines plumped for on April 9th would strike most as the wrong way. According to the Courier-Journal, after passengers had boarded a service from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, the…

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