Originally Posted by
Less Hair
Why can they throw people out before the maximum permissible compensation has been offered?
In fact it's not at all clear whether they can "throw people out" at all (except for a small number of specific safety-related reasons, none of which applied here).
Originally Posted by
SnowFella
There is no maximum permissible compensation, however there is a minimum permissible compensation.
And, more relevantly, there is the level of compensation that is necessary and sufficient to induce the required number of passengers to willingly give up their seats. That number always exists, United were simply too cheapskate to pay it.