BOARD Fairly Act

2017-04-25

Introduced in House

Bumping on Overbooked Airplanes Requires Dealing Fairly Act or the BOARD Fairly Act

This bill directs the Department of Transportation to modify a federal regulation relating to oversold flights to ensure that an air carrier:

may not refuse to transport a passenger holding a confirmed reserved seat on a flight to provide a seat for another passenger, regardless of whether such passenger is an air carrier employee;
negotiates and solicits a volunteer to relinquish his or her space before boarding the aircraft; and
if necessary, continues to increase the amount of compensation offered until a volunteer willingly accepts the offer in exchange for relinquishing a confirmed reserved seat.

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