Submitted on Tuesday 28th March 2017
Rejected on Wednesday 12th April 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Put an end to overbooking of flights
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.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
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.
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