(I had been bumped from an overbooked flight the previous summer.)

In 1999, he said, more than 250,000 passengers in Europe were bumped from overbooked flights.

At the departure gate, passenger is bumped from an overbooked flight on which baggage has already been loaded.

Her reservations on the overbooked flight evanesced from the computer before her last-minute arrival.

Meanwhile, more passengers are being bumped off overbooked flights than at any time in six years, said the bureau, an agency of the Transportation Department.

Under Department of Transportation rules, a passenger must be given some compensation when bumped from an overbooked flight.

To the Editor: Anyone who has ever been bumped from an overbooked flight knows only too well how infuriating that experience can be.

A few minutes later came a similar offer peddling discount first-class seats for another otherwise overbooked flight.

A few minutes later came a similar offer about an overbooked flight to St. Louis.

(I had volunteered to disembark from an overbooked flight last spring.)