Overbook Rights

What Overbook Rights is for

"The gate agent says the flight's oversold and asked for volunteers — should I take the deal?", "I got bumped against my will, what am I actually owed?" — a verified calculator for denied boarding / overbooking ("bumping") specifically, separate from ordinary delay and cancellation rights.

What it does

us_denied_boarding_compensation applies US DOT's 14 CFR 250.5 formula: 200% of your one-way fare (capped at $1,075) for a 1-2 hour domestic delay (1-4 hours international), or 400% (capped at $2,150) beyond that. us_denied_boarding_exceptions_check flags the standard reasons no compensation is owed — an aircraft under 30 seats, an on-time alternate, a missed check-in deadline, or a safety-driven aircraft substitution. us_cash_vs_voucher explains your right to insist on cash instead of a travel voucher, and the refund of any ancillary fee (seat selection, checked bag) for a service you didn't receive. eu261_denied_boarding_compensation applies EU261 Article 7's EUR250/400/600 distance table via Article 4 — with no extraordinary-circumstances exemption, since overbooking is always the airline's own commercial decision, not weather or ATC. eu261_volunteer_and_care_rights covers the duty to ask for volunteers first and the meal/hotel/communication care owed on top of any cash compensation. canada_bumping_compensation applies APPR's flat CAD900/1,800/2,400 tiers by arrival-delay length, the same for every airline regardless of size. jurisdiction_overview and compare_jurisdictions give the full text for one jurisdiction or a side-by-side comparison. voluntary_vs_involuntary_explainer clarifies the difference between volunteering (negotiated benefits, no fixed amount) and an involuntary bump (fixed statutory compensation). overbookrights_glossary defines terms like overbooking, volunteer, and involuntary denied boarding.

What it is not

This covers denied boarding / overbooking only — a flight that's delayed or cancelled outright (rather than oversold) is a different regime in every one of these jurisdictions, covered by the companion Flight Rights reference instead. This is general information, not legal advice: passenger-rights rules are periodically revised (the US dollar caps are adjusted for inflation on a schedule), and the exact outcome always depends on your specific facts, ticket conditions and airline. Verify against the official regulator — transportation.gov, europa.eu/youreurope, or otc-cta.gc.ca — before relying on this for a real claim.

Overbook Rights — Privacy Policy

Effective 26 September 2026. Unify Dynamics LLC ("we", "us"), Menlo Park, California.

What Overbook Rights is. Overbook Rights is a connector (an MCP server and REST API) that AI assistants and personal agents call on your behalf for a hand-curated, fully local airline overbooking/denied-boarding ("bumping") passenger-rights reference and calculator — US DOT, EU261 and Canada APPR rules, applied to the numbers you provide. You interact with your assistant; the assistant sends us only the arguments needed for that one calculation.

What we receive. The arguments of each tool call — a delay length, a flight distance, an aircraft seat count, or a jurisdiction name — the technical headers needed to serve the request (an IP address or a client identifier supplied by the assistant, and a Pro API key if you have one), and standard server logs. We do not ask for or need your name, ticket number, or airline booking reference to answer any of these questions.

Everything is answered from a bundled, hand-curated reference file and computed locally, and nothing is stored. No request is forwarded to any third party — there is no upstream call at all, live or otherwise — and no query is logged in request bodies, recorded, or used to train anything.

What we do not receive or store. We do not receive your conversation with the assistant, and we do not build a profile from your queries: each request is answered independently and nothing carries over between requests. Rate-limit counters (a client identifier and timestamps) are held in memory for at most 24 hours. Hosting-provider access logs, which contain IP addresses and request paths but not request bodies, are retained for up to 30 days for security and abuse prevention.

Sub-processors. None — the entire dataset is bundled with the server and every calculation runs locally. Hosting: Vercel (United States regions).

Legal bases and your rights. Our processing is necessary to provide the service you request through your assistant. Because we store no personal data beyond short-lived logs, requests to access, correct or delete personal data are usually satisfied automatically; you can still contact agent@connectorbay.com and we will respond within 30 days. We do not sell or share personal information and do not use your data to train models.

Children. Overbook Rights is a general-audience service operated by the adult using the assistant.

Changes. We will post changes here with a new effective date.

Overbook Rights — Terms of Service

Effective 26 September 2026. These terms govern use of the Overbook Rights connector ("the Service") operated by Unify Dynamics LLC ("we", "us").

1. The Service. Overbook Rights returns a hand-curated, fully local airline overbooking/denied-boarding ("bumping") passenger-rights reference and calculator covering US DOT rules (14 CFR Part 250), EU261 (EU/UK), and Canada's Air Passenger Protection Regulations. It is accessed through an AI assistant or directly over MCP or HTTP.
2. General information, not legal advice. The Service is an independent reference and calculator, not a lawyer, not a claims agent, and not affiliated with any airline or regulator. It does not file claims, submit disputes, or represent you in any way. Nothing in the Service is legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is created by using it. These passenger-rights regimes change — the dollar/euro/CAD amounts, thresholds and exceptions reflect the build date stated in the Service's own data and may no longer be current. Before relying on any result for a real claim, verify against the official regulator (transportation.gov/airconsumer, europa.eu/youreurope, or otc-cta.gc.ca) or consult a qualified professional.
3. Not a guarantee of outcome. Whether compensation is actually owed for a real dispute depends on facts (the aircraft's seating capacity, what the airline actually offered, whether you volunteered) that this Service cannot verify and that airlines and regulators sometimes dispute. A calculation here is not a determination by any airline or regulator.
4. Acceptable use. Automated use within the published rate limits is welcome.
5. Availability. The Service is provided "as is" without warranty. We may change, limit or discontinue it at any time, including to reflect regulatory changes.
6. Data. Our Privacy Policy describes what we process. In short: your query is computed from a bundled reference file, and nothing is stored.
7. Pro keys. Optional Pro API keys are issued at our discretion, are personal to the holder and may be revoked for abuse.
8. Liability. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Unify Dynamics LLC is not liable for any loss, injury, or damage arising from use of, or reliance on, the Service, including any claim denied or compensation not received in reliance on a result from this Service. Our total liability is limited to US $100.
9. Governing law. California law; venue in San Mateo County, California.
10. Contact. Unify Dynamics LLC · agent@connectorbay.com · https://connectorbay.com/overbookrights

Overbook Rights support

Email agent@connectorbay.com. We answer within two business days.

• MCP endpoint: https://overbookrights.connectorbay.com/mcp
• REST API: https://overbookrights.connectorbay.com/openapi.json
• Live status: https://overbookrights.connectorbay.com/health

When you report a problem, include the question you asked your agent, roughly when, and which agent you used (for example Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini). Never send us passwords, account numbers or ID numbers. Overbook Rights never asks for them.