Quote Originally Posted by Fmedges View Post
This only applies to being "bumped". There are no protections for flights being cancelled. My own opinion is that their is no difference between being involuntarily bumped and cancelled (due to non weather events), but the laws don't make that distinction. .
Yep, and think about what kind of incentives this gives airlines.

Let's see - try to "bump" passengers, have to shell out $$ and risk a social-media event that generates enormous bad PR,

OR

Cancel the whole flight and say "sorry, flight was cancelled due to safety considerations, have a nice day, sorry if you have a connecting flight you'll now miss, I guess it sucks to be you."

So maybe instead of more expensive tickets, as a result of this incident what we'll see instead is simply more cancelled flights.

Way to go, Dr. Dumbass.