Re: "United Airlines CEO: No more police to remove overbooked passengers"

Please pardon my initialized profanity, but this was NOT an example of G.D. "overbooking". (Such a 'Trumpian' attempt to change the topic!)

It was a gate agent that screwed up.  The plane was FULL, not "overbooked". After all paying passengers were boarded, 4 deadheading, non-paying UAL employees showed up, and the gate agent chose to "accommodate" them over the people who pay their salaries.

I've been a gate agent and would have lost my job if I'd screwed up so badly. They could as easily booked the deadheaders on another flight (even with an other airline) or booked them a van to get them to the other airport where they needed to be.