Originally Posted by
rickg523
Now, you can call this couple liars if you like. And claim they so aggressively refused to move back that they had to be removed for safety reasons per the crew report. Considering the accuracy of recent UA crew incident reports, I'm more apt to call it pumping up the story to justify crew actions. Which I would characterize as overreaction since the cabin was half empty.
I'm sure that we've all seen FAs ask poachers to move, either within the same cabin or between cabins (including E+ to E-), numerous times.
I'm willing to bet that we've never seen a single one of those passengers ejected from the flight if they just moved back to their assigned seats when asked.
Not to say that FAs are perfect, but the pax's version (we obediently moved when asked and were then thrown off) is highly implausible.