A passenger walks past an American Airlines plane at Reagan National Airport in Washington. (Susan Walsh/Associated Press)Delta has raised the compensation available to passengers who have to give up their seats on overbooked flights to nearly $10,000. American promises that no passenger who has boarded a plane will be removed to give the seat to someone else. And, United said it will no longer allow crew members to displace passengers who are already seated on a plane. The National Consumers League last week blamed the United incident on a lack of competition in the American airline industry.

Source: Washington Post April 17, 2017 18:29 UTC