{"id":7984,"date":"2011-04-24T10:48:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T14:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=7984"},"modified":"2011-04-24T10:48:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T14:48:26","slug":"bumped-airline-passengers-to-get-additional-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/04\/bumped-airline-passengers-to-get-additional-compensation","title":{"rendered":"Bumped Airline Passengers To Get Additional Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. airline passengers can collect $1,300 when they  are forced to give up their seat on an overbooked flight, a 63 percent  increase, under a federal rule made final today.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, foreign carriers must release  passengers from their aircraft stuck at U.S. airports within four hours  or face fines as high as $27,500, and airlines must refund luggage fees  if bags are lost, under the regulation issued by the U.S. Transportation  Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAirline passengers have a right to be treated  fairly,\u201d Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement. The  rule affects foreign carriers including British Airways Plc and Air  France-KLM Group and domestic airlines such as Delta Air Lines Inc. and  United Continental Holdings Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under a new federal rule, U.S. airline passengers can collect $1,300 when they are forced to give up their seat on an overbooked flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42,33,113],"class_list":["post-7984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-airlines","tag-tourism","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}