WestJet airline under fire after agent tears up passenger’s boarding passes for filming bumped flight dispute

One of Canada’s largest budget airlines is under fire after an agent tore up a family’s boarding pass and falsely told an elderly passenger he had “no right” to film after their flight was bumped.

Jason Huang and his family, including his 73-year-old father, arrived at Edmonton International Airport in August to board a WestJet flight to Toronto when they were told at the check-in counter that the plane they had booked was downsized and that they would need to fly out several hours later, the CBC reported.

Huang pressed the agents about why his family had been bumped from their original flight, but they refused to give a clear answer and he started to record the interaction for a compensation claim.

However, after he pulled out his phone to record, one of the WestJet agents told him h