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What to do if an airline bumps you from an overbooked flight

If not enough people volunteer to give up their seats on an oversold flight, airlines will involunt…

Hannah Towey,Taylor Rains   


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I thought the viral blow-up travel pillows were ingenious. Then, I traveled with one on a 15-hour economy flight.

Business Insider's author relied on a blow-up travel pillow for a 15-hour flight. Its bulky size ma…

Monica Humphries   


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These are the airlines most likely to bump you from flights

Frontier Airlines was the most likely of the 15 largest US carriers to bump people from flights in …

Grace Dean   


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What to do if an airline bumps you from an overbooked flight

Here's everything you should know if you're bumped from an overbooked flight — and how to low…

Hannah Towey,Taylor Rains   


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The 5 best and 5 worst seats on a plane, according to a flight attendant with 10 years of experience

Planes have good seats and bad seats, but many don't realize how their seat's proximity to the bath…

Beth Windsor   


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An American Airlines passenger on an oversold flight stayed in Italy for an extra 3 nights to collect $3,550 in travel vouchers

Susan Berry collected $3,550 in flight vouchers from an overbooked American Airlines flight between…

Monica Humphries   


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Be warned: Flights are getting bumpier

Air travel is getting more turbulent thanks to climate change. And the problem isn't going away.

Michelle Mastro   


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Delta could bump even more people off flights as it looks to increase 'overbooking' to wring out more profits

Overbooking — or selling more tickets than seats actually exist on a plane — scares pas…

Dennis Green   


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F1's $500 million bet on Las Vegas hits some bumps ahead of the Grand Prix

Since Formula One announced the Las Vegas Grand Prix last year, organizers have spent millions to i…

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Delta offered $10,000 to each passenger who volunteered to be bumped from an oversold flight out of Michigan, reports say

Delta's offer came amid a messy summer travel season with flight delays and chaos across the indust…

Huileng Tan   


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Travelers are wrapping seatbelts around their legs to get comfortable on planes. Flight attendants say it's a bad idea.

Business Insider spoke to two flight attendants who agreed that the travel hack of wrapping a seatb…

Monica Humphries   


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Here’s how much money you’re entitled to if an airline bumps you from an overbooked flight

Federal regulations say you could be entitled to up to $1,550 if an airline bumps you from a flight…

Tim Levin   


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A flight attendant says this is the biggest mistake travelers make when boarding

A flight attendant told Insider she's seen passengers make all kinds of mistakes, but one of the bi…

Monica Humphries   


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Terrible flight turbulence compelled 2 strangers to bond. They survived the bumpy ride with whiskey and TikTok.

Turbulence made Lila Smith and her seatmate so anxious they began brainstorming how they'd survive …

Kieran Press-Reynolds   


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Terrible flight turbulence compelled 2 strangers to bond. They survived the bumpy ride with whiskey and TikTok.

Turbulence made Lila Smith and her seatmate so anxious they began brainstorming how they'd survive …

Kieran Press-Reynolds   


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Airline CEO under fire for pay bump, $2.1 million salary after flight cancellations left thousands of passengers stranded in Bali

Alan Joyce's pay package increased by $287,000 to a total of $5.5 million this past year, company d…

Hannah Towey   


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A lawyer on TikTok shared how to get paid up to $1,550 if you're bumped from a flight. People said it worked for them.

TikToker and lawyer Erika Kullberg explained how to get compensation from airlines when you're invo…

Joey Hadden