Petition The UK to work with other EU-member States to ban overbooking of flights

Overbooking a flight is legal and, regardless of current EU Law Compensation Schemes, airlines are still taking advantage of this practice and it is their customers who end up facing the consequences.

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In my eyes, there is no reasonable justification to this practice:
- Airlines are well aware an aircraft has a finite number of seats.
- Customers have paid for their tickets in advance.
- If a customer decides to cancel a booking, the cost of the ticket is not refunded.

Therefore, airlines are not covering losses, but rather increasing their profits, while customers bare the stress, loss of income, extra costs and/or ruined holidays.

EU Legislation is in place, but clearly not enough.

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Date closed 3 May 2017
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