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In the European Union, airlines are forbidden from offering vouchers as compensation for overbooking. They must pay cash.

Simple solution that fixed a consumer-hostile approach adopted by a cartel of companies. Sadly, the EU rarely gets credit for the great number of consumer protections it has established; instead people like to rant about egregious regulations that either don't exist or have been grossly misrepresented.




Where "people" == right wing press




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