Dao was among four passengers chosen at random to be bumped from Sunday's flight from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, after nobody was enticed enough by the airline's offers to
voluntarily gave up their seats.
Federal rules dictate a carrier must first check whether anyone is willing to
voluntarily give up their seat before then bumping flyers involuntarily if nobody comes forward.
After no passengers
voluntarily gave up their seats in the overbooked flight for $ 1,000, the airline randomly selected customers who would be booted out of the plane.
Meanwhile, 106,723 people
voluntarily gave up their seat during the same timeframe.
Not exact matches
«Seeing as how a DOCTOR was forcibly removed errr beaten unconscious from refusing to «
voluntarily»
give up his
seat, due to United Airlines incompetently overbooking their flight, I will NEVER FLY UNITED AGAIN!
«My colleague, Michael Caputo,
voluntarily sat in this
seat a couple of months ago,
gave what I believe were candid and truthful answers to those who cared to sit in on the interview; and yet, when he was done, he was accused of perjury by a member who did not even have the pretention to show
up for his interview.
Before an airline forces a passenger to
give up his / her
seat due to overbooking, the airline must ask passengers on the flight if they are willing to
give up their
seat voluntarily in exchange for compensation.