Originally Posted by fastair

Didn't he originate in LAX? The "I've been traveling for 24 hours" IMHO was just an excuse to try to pressure them to violate the established policy and to deflect removal to any other person. Either that, or that if he had taken the bump, he WOULD have been traveling for 24 hours as the protection was not until the next day, and his wording was poor (although that same thing as well would apply to any other person as the next confirm-able flight was the next day.) It was similar to the "I am a physician" statement, an attempt to say someone else, anyone else is less deserving than me to be removed, pick them. No one has a 24 hour journey time from their vacation in CA via this routing LAX-ORD-SDF without building a stopover in or significant irrops. People (on this thread) had speculated that he connected in from Asia, to get to that 24 hours, but from the facts that have been presented, he did not, he originated in LAX and any other flights added to increase his journey time are a rewriting of history rationalization to increase the perceived insult to the doctor.