Or perhaps, as an adult, you could research the relevant law https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/part-253 which clearly documents passengers’ rights (which the article got completely wrong), and stand up for your rights when the airline tries to illegally stiff passengers to prop up their profits.

The article has three huge flaws, rendering it essentially wrong in its conclusions.

First, there’s a huge difference between before and after boarding.

It’s funny to make fun of someone by saying they have a low paying job

Wow. The responses to this post are surprising. I’m nowhere near a millenial, I’m closer to an “old”, and I’ve watched airline behavior steadily plummet. Back before the days of 9/11, I watched helplessly as Delta manhandled two young girls off a plane, threaten them with jail, and lock them in a room all because…

Except Dao WAS entitled to his seat BY LAW. He asserted that right; the plane refused to afford him the seat, and he was taken off which was an incorrect action by the airline’s OWN ADMITTANCE.

Don’t like how a business treats it’s customers dont give them your business

And what, pray tell, do you suggest airlines do? Abolish overbooking?

Again there is no TEST CASE for this. That is what the AIRLINE says not the law.

If I’m not in it as Ursula, then no deal.

United doesn’t define “boarding” in its contract of carriage, and the DOT doesn’t define it in their regulations. So the airlines may think it can include everything up until the door closes, like United initially tried to claim. They may really believe that. But since it’s not defined as such in their contract of…

But don’t dare tell others why you’re not giving them your business, because then you’re not adulting.

Samneda I fly once or twice per month for work. There are PLENTY of opportunities to get a count of who is present for a flight, i.e. checked in. That’s what checking in is for. If you check in at the ticket counter, they know you’re at the airport. If you check in online, they at least know you’re PLANNING to take…

Except that the child COULD fly in the parents Lap WITHOUT a ticket. I think that this is the part that people seem to be forgetting. They were not trying to fly the child with someone else’s ticket he could already get on the flight without it. If they had waited till the plane was in the air to seat him in his…

No, we can’t when you want us all to accept our crappy treatment. You can’t have both, you dumbass.

Can’t say I’ve ever burned down a college campus, no.

That is literally, not figuratively, what the OP was suggesting, asshole. And then some other jackass comes along and says “adulting” means you don’t boycott, you just “suck it up”. I take issue with that.

Yes buttercup. That’s exactly how you do it. I know adulting is hard but dealing with situations where you have no control comes with the territory.

They settled almost instantly should tell you that boarding and plane removal are two different things. Just because the airplane considers boarding until the plane leaves does not mean the law does.

I’m sorry....

I agree with most of this, but this article conflates “denying boarding” with “being removed from the plane after being permitted to board”.
Those are two very different acts, and they have different rules both at a federal level and within the carriage agreement at the airlines.
Long story short:
-They can deny…