Originally Posted by
ExXB
From reports they got to $800 and a hotel.
CFR 250.5 fixes compensation for denied bording at 400% of the fare, with a maximum of $1350. (Can be less if they get rerouted to arrive within an hour or two)
Perhaps if they fixed it at $10,000, (not a percentage of the fare) there would never be another denied boarding.
Yup, let's be clear what happened. United made a simple financial trade off that they could do under the law, rather than raise the price to a point where there would be takers.