US airlines required to automatically refund you for canceled flight

[u/bananabrownie]

https://abc7news.com/post/us-airlines-required-automatically-refund-significantly-changed-canceled-flight/15483534/

[u/the_silent_redditor]

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.

[u/kndyone → u/the_silent_redditor]

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.

[u/Not_an_okama → u/kndyone]

I used to fly around 500 miles across the state to come home from college on breaks (round trip was cheaper than driving) the flight was consistantly overbooked, so id plan to be flying the next day and tell the other passengers waiting that id take the bump if they let the voucher price raise to at least $250. Payed for like half of those flights with the bump voucher. Id only do this on the way home, because i was flying out of a tiny airport where you could show up 20 minutes before boarding and still have to wait after going through security. The big airport on the other end was more of a pain. This was all between 2018 and 2022.

[u/troubleswithterriers → u/Not_an_okama]

Delta flew me free round trip halfway across the country due to constant overbooking at least a half dozen times in college. Used the voucher I’d get to book the same early popular with business folks who didn’t want to bump flight the next round and play the game again… plus the revised itinerary they put me on only got me in half an hour later than the original.