With regard to the article Courtney posted:
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scot...#ixzz0ru3W4y8l
A lot of airport police, in the US, should take note of this article. Confronted with the same circumstances I suspect your average US airport police team would go into riot control/SWAT team mode and abet any concentration camp environment the airline had created. Hopefully, with the 3-hour limit for (US) domestic flights, airport police will have read the DOT regulation and not revert to their previous role—a strong arm enforcer of an airline’s “anything goes” policy of how customers are treated.
Jimworcs: I smell BS in Ryanair’s comment about a slot being available. Is there ANY airport, in Scotland, where the availability of a slot is really an issue??