Thought I'd bump this up again. As I had heard, as I suspected, and as any small amount of thinking about it ought to reveal, a pilot is not a god with the power of life and death. This crap about 'the pilot has the right to throw anyone off a plane for any reason' is Fake News.
I don't care...
Yes, but what does 'complete control' mean? I'm pretty sure it does not mean everything up to and including 'droit du seigneur'. And it is predicated by safety. Yes, he/she can throw off a nutter who won't stop praying loudly while the evacuation procedure is being explained but, as I said . . ...
I heard that. But the proviso is 'the captain has say so over everything - predicated by safety' (to paraphrase - I'm more succinct than he was). This was not a safety issue. It was a bump off to make room for airline staff wanting to get elsewhere. So he was talking bollocks. The captain has no...