Kicking someone off was the right decision if it meant another flight was cancelled/delayed. United didn't do anything criminal by asking him to leave. This is

Kicking someone off was the right decision if it meant another flight was cancelled/delayed. United didn't do anything criminal by asking him to leave. This is in fact the opinion of the article were supposedly discussing. >To be clear, the fact that United seems to have breached its contract with Dao doesn’t mean its action was illegal, as the headline of this otherwise helpful article by a nonlawyer on a frequent traveler website suggests. There’s nothing illegal about breaching a contract. If you do so, you simply have to pay damages. Dao’s lawyer, Thomas Demetrio, said Thursday that he is investigating possible claims against United. >And once United in effect told Dao that it was breaching its contract with him and told him to get off, he was probably under a legal duty to comply. He should have left and contested the charges as a civil case.