Originally published at: How much can you get if an airline bumps you? | Boing Boing
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Note that the quoted text only applies to involuntary bumps, which are actually pretty rare.
The vast majority of the time when a flight is oversold, the airlines will ask for (and find) volunteers to give up their seats in exchange for vouchers good toward a future flight on the airline. If you accept an offer like that, you can’t turn around and demand 200% of your fare in cash, because you accepted the voucher already.
Only if the airlines don’t find volunteers and start unilaterally bumping people involuntarily, do the regulated cash payouts apply.
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At 400% of a flight to Europe I might start hoping to get bumped.
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Prices are projected to go down significantly in the fall. I heard 40%.
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Early in January, domestic flight in Brazil, I got bumped from late night to early morning.
My refund? Two meal vouchers and covid.
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I’m not sure how the value was arrived at, and they could presumably seek to neutralize it by a lobbying push of some kind; but the values are specified by law. There is nothing preventing a carrier from offering more, if they wish to avoid a scene; but the $775 and $1,550 caps are what they are because section 250.5 says 200% of fare or $775 and 400% of fare or $1,550 for the two cases; so they can’t legally go lower without finding someone to voluntarily accept the offer.
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