Re your article “Video images show man being dragged from overbooked flight” (11 April), in 2016 I was ejected after boarding a flight (United Airlines was not the carrier). Sitting waiting for takeoff, I strongly objected, but was persuaded that accepting a seat on a later flight that day was preferable to the threat of forcible removal. Having been marched off the plane between two “escorts”, I was taken to the re-booking desk to be told there were no further flights to my destination that day. Business aborted, I simply returned home. I would advise passengers to always stow luggage in the aircraft’s hold – you will not be ejected because of the time it will take to retrieve your luggage. This is something I now always do.
Peter Taylor
Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear
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