Comment by ericpauley

Comment by ericpauley 2 days ago

3 replies

Overbooking is not a mistake, though. People miss flights for many reasons, and the airlines predict this with impressive accuracy, to the point that they can afford to pay tremendous sums for being wrong and yet still come out ahead.

branko_d 2 days ago

> afford to pay tremendous sums for being wrong

Or they can just haul you forcefully from the flight you paid for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Express_passenger_...

  • ericpauley 2 days ago

    Case in point! Imagine how much United(Express) settled this for.

  • scarface_74 2 days ago

    This is ridiculous. There must have been some amount of money that would have convinced four people to deplane voluntarily. $800 was ridiculously low.