Passenger bumping by U.S. airlines reached a
record quarterly low of 0.15 per 10,000 passengers in the third quarter,
according to the Department of Transportation. The rate is down from 0.69 in
the third quarter of 2016 and from 0.44 in the second quarter of this year,
which had
been the lowest dating back to 1995. U.S. carriers altered their approaches
to involuntary denied boarding policies this year after a passenger was injured
and forcibly removed from a United Airlines flight earlier this year. United
reported that the number of passengers bumped from its flights declined 92
percent year over year in the third quarter.