10-14-2003, 01:37 AM
Quote:Little known fact: EVERY flight is over booked by 10%, to account for possible no shows and cancelations. People that are asked to give up their seat on a given flight to give to someone else (stand-bys) are offered a free round trip ticket on another flight of their choice (of some kind of comparable length flight i imagine).
You are full of shit. I've been on plenty of flights that were less than 75% capacity. Also, I rarely see anyone get left behind, even stand-bys. Why would the airlines put themselves in the position to always have to give free/discounted fairs to people?
I've flown about 50K miles this year and I've only been bumped once and that was on a stand-by where I got bumped by another stand-by with a higher rank.