US: Booker, Menendez want to clamp down on airline overbooking
Following the removal of a United Airlines passenger from an airplane by force last month, 2 New Jersey Democrats are proposing new legislation that would take aim at airlines’ practice of overbooking flights and denying service to ticketed passengers. Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez said their bill would sharply reduce instances of overbooking and impose other new regulations ahead of the June 30 deadline to reauthorize the FAA’s agreements on funding and policy priorities. Changes include doing away with the $1,350 cap on pay-outs for ejected passengers and forbidding airlines from rejecting travellers who have already boarded the aircraft. “It should be a cost consequence to the airline and their bottom line,” Menendez said of the bill. <br/>
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US: Booker, Menendez want to clamp down on airline overbooking
Following the removal of a United Airlines passenger from an airplane by force last month, 2 New Jersey Democrats are proposing new legislation that would take aim at airlines’ practice of overbooking flights and denying service to ticketed passengers. Senators Cory Booker and Bob Menendez said their bill would sharply reduce instances of overbooking and impose other new regulations ahead of the June 30 deadline to reauthorize the FAA’s agreements on funding and policy priorities. Changes include doing away with the $1,350 cap on pay-outs for ejected passengers and forbidding airlines from rejecting travellers who have already boarded the aircraft. “It should be a cost consequence to the airline and their bottom line,” Menendez said of the bill. <br/>
