<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by LHR Wannabee:
Can CO take your seat away without compensation once you are ticketed and on the plane? This seemed quite outrageous to me. Someone said something about a full fare passenger coming on---- but why did that person come on the plane with less than 5 minutes from pushback?
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Not to excuse what they did but most likely it wasn't just a full-fare passenger but a full-fare passenger for whom CO had screwed up something badly and were trying to accommodate.