Put an end to overbooking of flights

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

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 costumers who end up facing the consequences.

In my eyes, there is no reasonable justification to this practice:
- Airlines are well aware an aircraft has a finite number of seats.
- Costumers have paid for their tickets in advance.
- If a costumer 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 costumers bare the stress, loss of income, extra costs and/or ruined holidays.

EU Legislation is in place, but clearly not enough.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

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

Alternatively, you could start a new petition calling on the UK Government to work with other EU member states to change the law on this.

Timeline

28 Mar 2017	Petition opened for signatures
12 Apr 2017	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18

Status Rejected

Rejected 12 Apr 2017

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