[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: 14CFR250.5]



[Page 202]

 

                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

   CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)

 

PART 250_OVERSALES--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 250.5  Amount of denied boarding compensation for passengers 

denied boarding involuntarily.



    (a) Subject to the exceptions provided in Sec. 250.6, a carrier as 

defined in Sec. 250.1, shall pay compensation to passengers denied 

boarding involuntarily from an oversold flight at the rate of 200 

percent of the sum of the values of the passenger's remaining flight 

coupons up to the passenger's next stopover, or if none, to the 

passenger's final destination, with a maximum of $400. However, the 

compensation shall be one-half the amount described above, with a $200 

maximum, if the carrier arranges for comparable air transporation, or 

other transportation used by the passenger that, at the time either such 

arrangement is made, is planned to arrive at the airport of the 

passenger's next stopover or if none, at the airport of the passenger's 

destination, not later than 2 hours after the time the direct or 

connecting flight on which confirmed space is held is planned to arrive 

in the case of interstate air transportation, or 4 hours after such time 

in the case of foreign air transportation.

    (b) Carriers may offer free or reduced rate air transportation in 

lieu of the cash due under paragraph (a) of this section, if (1) the 

value of the transportation benefit offered is equal to or greater than 

the cash payment otherwise required, and (2) the carrier informs the 

passenger of the amount of cash compensation that would otherwise be due 

and that the passenger may decline the transportation benefit and 

receive the cash payment.



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

8, 2003]