CANADA INCREASES COMPENSATION FOR BUMPED AIR PASSENGERS TO MORE THAN £1,400.

Under the new rules, airlines must ask every passenger on an overbooked flight if they will take a later flight in return for a financial incentive.

Airline travellers to, from and within Canada are soon to benefit from the world’s toughest passenger-rights rules, with carriers that overbook obliged to pay over £1,400 to people bumped off planes.

The Canadian Transportation Agency has unveiled Air Passenger Protection Regulations that apply to any flight to, from or within Canada. Most of the rules take effect on 15 July 2019.

The harshest penalties are the payments stipulated for passengers who are denied boarding against their will. While selling more tickets than there are seats available on a flight is legal, the new rules make it obligatory to ask every passenger on an overbooked flight if they will take a later flight in return for a financial incentive.

By Simon Calder.

Full story at Independent.