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Frostshock posted...

The math behind overbooking flights is sound, and every airline does it. They'd lose lots of money if they didn't.

This isn't how you're supposed to handle the unlikely event of actually not having enough space, but don't act like the problem is overbooking.

The sole reason for over booking is that they don't want to lose money if a passenger books a flight but doesn't actually take it without cancelling before hand. But by that point they already took money for that flight (literally taking money for a service not provided), they are not giving it back (good luck trying to get money back from them!) and this doesn't happen as often anyway.

Would they lose some money without overbooking? Perhaps. Would they go bankrupt or in the red because of it? LOL no.

Some overbooking may be necessary, sometimes, maybe, but not as often and blatant as it is right now, and the way they handle it ("buy a ticket from us, they get denied your seat and then have our rent-a-cops beat the shit out of you and drag you off the plane") leaves a lot to be desired.

This wasn't due to overbooking, though. They said it was about overbooking. It was about them needing to make room for their own employees, who aren't even paying customers anyway.
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