What the United States regime publishes about being asked to give up your seat, quoted verbatim from 14 CFR 250.2b, Carriers to request volunteers for denied boarding (eCFR) and dated.
the instrument quoted here
eCFR
of the regimes read carry a rule on this question
2/2
the day these pages were read
2026-09-10
The instrument's own words
In the event of an oversold flight, every carrier shall request volunteers for denied boarding before using any other boarding priority.
That passage is the whole of what eCFR publishes on this point on the section cited. It is reproduced here for reporting and comment; it is not advice, and it does not decide your claim.
it shall first call for volunteers to surrender their reservations in exchange for benefits under conditions to be agreed between the passenger concerned and the operating air carrier
Side by side, each in its own instrument's words. Where the two regimes differ, the difference is the point: a passenger flying between them can be covered by one and not the other on the same journey.
Where this comes from
This quotation was taken from 14 CFR 250.2b, Carriers to request volunteers for denied boarding (eCFR) on September 2026, and the text of that page as it read that day is kept so the quotation can be checked. eCFR publishes it; this site only quotes it.
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eCFR on being asked to give up your seat in United States: “In the event of an oversold flight, every carrier shall request volunteers for denied boarding before using any other boarding priority.” (FlightDelayHQ Air Passenger Entitlement Index).
Cite as: "FlightDelayHQ Air Passenger Entitlement Index: Being asked to give up your seat, United States", updated 2026-09-10, https://flightdelayhq.com/rights/united-states/giving-up-your-seat/.