Originally Posted by
erlich
Companies protect themselves by buying insurance. You know insurance is a thing, right?
The cost of getting the crew to the next flight is however much it costs to obtain four seats within the entire transportation system slack; kicking people off of one of its own flights is not the only option, it just happened to be the cheapest option under the current perverse rules.
So change the rules, cancel the other flight, and leave 70 people stranded. Genius.