Originally Posted by
oldtora
Thanks MickJoeBill , you are a cool breeze of agreement for my lonely position , that UA , no matter how arbitrary , makes the rules , and the police enforce those rules , and the pax might as well go along and avoid chaos .
The police can not legally enforce the CoC for the airlines in the U.S. The contractural relationship between the passenger (customer) and the airline is a civil contract.
Ordering a sober/non-terrorist/non-security risk/ticketed/ and seated passenger to leave the cabin to accommodate airline employees is outside the terms of the CoC.
Just because "it's always been done that way" does not make it legal.