[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 4]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR250.2b]

[Page 208]
 
                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
   CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)
 
PART 250--OVERSALES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 250.2b  Carriers to request volunteers for denied boarding.

    (a) In the event of an oversold flight, every carrier shall request 
volunteers for denied boarding before using any other boarding priority. 
A ``volunteer'' is a person who responds to the carrier's request for 
volunteers and who willingly accepts the carriers' offer of 
compensation, in any amount, in exchange for relinquishing the confirmed 
reserved space. Any other passenger denied boarding is considered for 
purposes of this part to have been denied boarding involuntarily, even 
if that passenger accepts the denied boarding compensation.
    (b) If an insufficient number of volunteers come forward, the 
carrier may deny boarding to other passengers in accordance with its 
boarding priority rules. However, the carrier may not deny boarding to 
any passenger involuntarily who was earlier asked to volunteer without 
having been informed about the danger of being denied boarding 
involuntarily and the amount of Board-mandated compensation.

[ER-1337, 48 FR 29680, June 28, 1983]