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Air travelers may soon be entitled to more compensation for getting bumped from a flight.

A proposal released by the U.S. Department of Transportation would raise the maximum reimbursement airlines are required to pay travelers involuntarily bumped from overbooked domestic flights to between $650 and $1,300, up from a range of $400 to $800.

An airline's maximum penalty hinges on the price of the ticket for that leg of the trip, and whether the affected passenger was rerouted to their destination between one to two hours of their originally scheduled arrival (or one to four hours for international flights). Travelers rerouted to arrive in less than an hour are not owed compensation. Read Article >>

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