Southwest Airlines plans to stop overbooking flights — an industry practice implicated in an ugly incident on a United Airlines flight that has damaged United’s reputation with the flying public. Last ...

The last time transportation expert Seth Kaplan was bumped from a flight, he walked away with $800 and a good excuse for missing the first session of a San Diego business conference. Such compensation ...

Airlines aren't going to stop overbooking. In the wake of the forcible removal of a passenger from a United Airlines flight, governments and airlines have been reexamining their overbooking policies.

New legislation in Congress would address how airlines deal with overcrowding. U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen announced on Wednesday the Customers Not Cargo Act, which would prohibit airlines from ...

Overbooking flights has been a common occurrence for years on flights across the United States. Despite the inconvenience of being forced to miss a flight, the federal government allows airlines to ...

Southwest Airlines plans to stop overbooking flights — an industry practice implicated in an ugly incident on a United Airlines flight that has damaged United’s reputation with the flying public. Last ...

A United Airlines Airbus A319 passenger plane taxis toward a gate at Denver International Airport in Denver, Colo., on Aug. 25, 2016. A United Airlines Airbus A319 passenger plane taxis toward a gate ...

The United Airlines incident has sparked outrage about the practice of overbooking in the airline industry. On Tuesday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie even sent a letter to the Trump administration ...

JetBlue Airways CEO Robin Hayes said Tuesday the carrier is sticking with its policy against overbooking flights, but that high bumping statistics resulted from reducing the size of planes on routes ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whatever the price of the seats would have amounted to, it would certainly have cost far less than what United has lost since.