West Coast - I thought my post was written in English - what couldn't you understand about it? <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
[quote]...it takes a couple of minutes to deny someone boarding and explain why. The article says that the flight was delayed seventy five minutes...<hr></blockquote>
It should therefore be obvious to everyone that this was
not simply a case of denying someone passage.
I agree with you that the captain has the absolute right of discretion about who travels on the aircraft - that's not an issue here. What is is the question about whether the agent was denied passage because of his ethnicity. Had the captain chucked the guy off and gone on the understandable basis that the paperwork wasn't in order then that's one thing. However, here we have a seventy five minute delay - yet there doesn't seem to have been any effort to have done the two things that would have resolved the problem for once and for all; (a) verified the cancellation of the earlier flight - which would have made the paperwork problem the airline's problem rather than the USSS; and (b) had AA Security call the USSS to obtain verification of the agent's identity.
Understand where I'm coming from now?