Originally Posted by
sbrower
The LA Times today says that he was coming from a celebration in California.
Okay, thanks--that part of the account was confusing from the start.
But the point stands: He probably paid much more than the $100 that United assigned to this leg, and being at the top of the stuckee list because of low-spend would therefore seem like nonsense.
Of course, the witnesses reported that the selection was made by the computer, or randomly, depending on which account one reads. (And most people who had not read the CofC, which is most people, would have conflated those two anyway.) So, it probably seemed entirely arbitrary to him.
If it does turn out that the GA walked the aisle with a manifest looking for easy targets, then that would make bad news for the GA even worse. But I don't assume that's what happened.