Airline Bumping: Your Rights & Compensation Opportunities on Overbooked Flights

The recent “Bumpgate” incident (I prefer “Drag-gate”) from United, in my mind, is not too dissimilar from the situations that have led to Comcast and Epipen (among others) taking advantage of their customers. All are systemic examples of what happens when unchecked capitalism leads to monopolistic control in an industry. The three major U.S. airline carriers – United, American, and Delta are technically an “oligopoly”, which is defined as: “A market form in which a market or industry is dominated by a small number of sellers...

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