United stack rank oversold flights by height

As I was flying this past week I got a notice that my flight was oversold and they were offering a voucher if I took a different flight at a crappy time. I politely declined and stuck with my existing itinerary. Oh, to be so free that I could just take the money and enjoy myself.

This got me thinking about the situations where things get really dire and airlines have to pay a lot of money to remove people. What if they were a bit harsher and simply removed the shortest people first?

There’s no reason why you would start with shorter people, as you’d likely end up leaving a bunch of kids without their parents. It’d also be decried as ableist (which it is?)

Anyways, there’s no world where something like this makes it to production, but I’m imagining an I Think You Should Leave or SNL skit where this exists and it could be pretty entertaining.

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