Passengers can't be removed from overbooked flights in Canada- Austin Wallace

After a horrible and violent incident involving an innocent passenger aboard a United Airlines flight, Canada has passed a new "passenger bill of rights" ensuring that passengers are to be treated like people and not numbers. Under this new bill, airlines will not have the right to forcibly remove a passenger who has paid for their flight, and in the event of overbooking, if the airline can't find a willing volunteer to take a minimum compensation amount, they will be required to increase the amount offered until they do. 

Overbooking is a somewhat shady business practice, in which the airline sells more seats than they have in order to ensure all seats are filled in case of passenger cancelation. I hope that this new bill encourages airlines to stop overbooking there flights. In any other business, it would be illegal to take someones money with promise of a good or service you may not be able to provide. Airlines need to be held to the same standards as every other business. I think America should follow Canada's example and pass laws to protect the rights of passengers, instead of protecting the interests of big corporate airlines.

This can be synthesized to the consumer rights act of 2015 in the UK.

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