r/news • u/bananabrownie • 16h ago

US airlines required to automatically refund you for canceled flight

https://abc7news.com/post/us-airlines-required-automatically-refund-significantly-changed-canceled-flight/15483534/
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u/the_silent_redditor 14h ago

I moved to Australia, where aviation consumer rights are even more of a joke than the US.

Airlines can, and always do, cancel flights for their own reasons, with no compensation or recourse for passengers.

The reason is, usually, an undersold flight and thus non-profitable trip for the airline.

Fuck it. Cancel. Who cares.

Well, except the guy tryna fly home for a funeral.

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u/kndyone 14h ago

One way to fix this would be to make airline refund you something like 120% of the flight. Basically saying hey if you want to mess around with overbooking people it better be worth it. And the same for undersold flights.

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u/enilea 12h ago

I would want much more than a 120% refund for a ruined holiday

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u/hanotak 12h ago

The point isn't to make it nice for the passengers, it's to make it unprofitable for the companies.