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Let's leave his prior incidents out of this since they have no bearing whatsoever in it. If any of us had to be to the destination in a timely fashion and had been granted boarding, we would not have agreed to give up our seat. And no matter who asks, we would not have to. He was not a security threat.
Now, if you want to offer enough to charter my own flight, I will gladly shuttle over to the nearest FBO and be on my happy way. But once on board, that is the passenger's call, not the airline's. Could the airline just cancel the entire flight? Sure, but we all know that would end up costing them orders of magnitude more. If they were really smart, they would've chartered a flight for the crew that needed to be relocated.
I do hope this forces airlines to operate more from what is right than what is legal.