Good luck with this pursuit, because you will need it:
Quote:
F. Comfort and Safety - In the following categories where refusal or
removal may be necessary for the comfort or safety of the Passenger(s)
or other passengers:
(1) Persons whose conduct is or has been known to be disorderly,
abusive, offensive, threatening, intimidating violent, or whose
clothing is lewd, obscene, or patently offensive;
and
G. The tickets of any Passenger refused passage or removed enroute
under the provisions of this Section 24 will be refunded in accordance
with Section 26 below. Such a refund shall be the sole recourse of any
Passenger refused passage or removed enroute. UNDER NO
CIRCUMSTANCES WILL CARRIER BE LIABLE TO ANY
PASSENGER OR REFUSED PASSENGER FOR ANY TYPE OF
INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. Like balls and strikes calls in baseball, what is "disorderly, abusive, offensive", etc., is a judgment call. I suspect that judgment calls have little to no chance of success. Your defense that your buddy smelled really bad won't go very far. I would pursue a loss you had for tickets, if any, but nothing else. Do you really want to piss of an airline?
When customers choose airlines by price, expect the industry to race to the bottom. Unfortunately, you are old enough to recall the days when that was not what air travel was all about.
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