This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Overbooking flights should be classed as fraud.
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In light of the shocking event that took place on United airlines regarding a man being forcibly removed from his flight, the government should class overbooking flights as frauds.
Overbooking flights is technically selling people something that does not exist, which is fraud and is illegal.
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.
This law is the responsibility of the EU, not the UK Government or Parliament. The European Parliament has a petitions system:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/atyourservice/en/20150201PVL00037/Petitions
We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.