[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 4]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR250.2b]



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                     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



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about the danger of being denied boarding involuntarily and the amount 

of DOT-mandated compensation.



[ER-1337, 48 FR 29680, June 28, 1983, as amended at 68 FR 52836, Sept. 

8, 2003]