while the good Doctor elected not to do it, and was physically fighting a lawful ejection from the aircraft.
Not so,
Red Jet, the Doctor had a binding contract with the airline and had bought that seat for this particular trip, he had been properly ticketed and processed so that he could and did legally board the flight. The company then decided that it wanted to vary that contract, this is properly achieved by negotiation, if negotiation fails, as it did in this case, physically throwing the passenger off the flight is not an option, there is no contract written that allows that. This was entirely an internal problem for the airline.