BREAKING: United announces new protections -- including raising limit on payment to bumped fliers to $10,000 -- in wake of passenger-dragging incident

Having trouble viewing this email? | View it in your browser   United Airlines is pledging a sweeping series of changes that it says will give passengers new protections, including allowing employees to offer up $10,000 to try to entice overbooked passengers to take different flights. The policies are meant to prevent episodes like the one that occurred on April 9 at Chicago's O'Hare Airport in which a passenger was violently removed from his seat. "That breach of public trust is something we have to rework," United CEO Oscar Munoz said in an interview with USA TODAY. FOR MORE ON THIS STORY, GO TO:   USATODAY.COM     Help | Advertise | Home Delivery | Privacy Policy - Your California Privacy Rights     © 2017 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. 7950 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA 22108