Family booted off Delta flight

[MineralMan]

109. Well, I have another thought about this:

The entire nonsense delayed the takeoff of that plane. If I were a passenger with a tight connection schedule at that flight's destination, I'd be royally pissed off if this nonsense caused me to miss my connection.

Were I the dad in this case, I'd have simply shrugged and held the kid in my lap from the get-go. As soon as that standby passenger showed up to take his seat, I'd have transferred the baby to my lap and shut the heck up about it. Elder son took another flight and didn't check in, so the airline boarded a standby passenger. Game over.

I've watched a few of these arguments take place during boarding on flights. They delay everyone. They're useless. Hold the baby on your lap, Dad, and let's take the heck off on time. Thanks!

The end result, in this case, was that all three of the people involved were kicked off the flight. The takeoff was delayed. Almost certainly, someone missed a connection due to that.

I have little patience for this kind of useless arguments on planes. You're going to end up doing what the airline wants, so why dick around with arguing with the crew? It won't work and you're pissing off everyone else on the plane.