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Going airline, in American English slang, means depriving a person, by force, of something to which he is legally entitled.

The expression comes from two incidents in April, 2017, and May, 2017, the second within days of the first, involving United Airlines and then Delta Airlines, in which passengers who had purchased seats were forcibly removed from the aircraft. Although these incidents are not the only such occurrences, they certainly highlighted the American public's frustration with the airline industry's practice of overbooking flights.