It is the free market approach vs regulation. Federal regulation created a subsidy for the airlines allowing them to bump passengers to fly employees (or anyone) without really compensating them-- no other business can do this. Imagine being taken out of a restaurant. These problems do not get fixed by more government regulation. The lawsuit is a better way to get the arilines to compete as they should without pressuring government into subsidizing them and giving them favorable treatment. Like Rand Paul said-- a class action lawsuit in the billions regarding oil spills works better than thousands of pages of Federal regulations.