Originally Posted by
LaserSailor
There is a lot of flyer talk courage about taking airlines to court. You have no right to any seat on any airline, they are free to move you as they see fit., and will do for a wide range of reasons covered in many threads.
You can refuse to take the seat and ask for accommodation on a different flight, in which case you give up IDB and EU comp.
If they have a legit reason for that then this in fact is OK, but unless it is customary to just reassign seats at will for a certain airline doing this without any meaningful reason and then deboarding a passenger because of his resistance will certainly not relief an airline from their IDB-liability...
Greetings - Dirk