Sen. Chris Van Hollen Announces ‘Customers Not Cargo Act’

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Senator Chris Van Hollen announced Wednesday that he is introducing legislation that would “prohibit airlines from forcibly removing passengers after they have already boarded the plane due to overbooking or airline staff seeking to fly as passengers.”
This comes in the wake of outrage at a video of a United Airlines passenger being dragged off a plane that the airline originally said was overbooked, which was flying from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport t