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To: livius

Don’t forget that federal regulation limit how much compensation the airlines can offer someone to bump them from a flight....

Not to mention all the other federal regs that increase the cost of airlines that contribute tot he airline culture of constantly trying to overbook flights....


5 posted on 04/18/2017 12:02:10 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, that it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: GraceG
What they eat in regulations 'we' counter in subsidized security and airports, airline bailouts,etc. They get off pretty good on this one.
47 posted on 04/18/2017 12:33:02 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: GraceG

Airlines can and do offer more if necessary.

The $1350 is not a maximum limit. It is a minumun threshold. If this threshold value is met or exceeded and still not enough passengers accept, airlines can start involuntary bumping without legal repercussion.

Stop reading and believing fakenews. There are plenty of knowledgeable sources (aviation law attorneys, for example) that have provided useful analysis of this issue.


98 posted on 04/18/2017 1:37:17 PM PDT by 13foxtrot
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To: GraceG

The airline offered vouchers for another flight on UNited — if you got bumped off, would you want that? If they offered cold, hard cash, more people would have jumped.


160 posted on 04/18/2017 11:08:43 PM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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