On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 12:44:31 PM UTC-4, Frank wrote:
On 4/11/2017 10:10 AM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
On 4/11/2017 6:20 AM, Frank wrote:
On 4/11/2017 12:35 AM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
On 4/10/2017 9:23 PM, Oren wrote:
On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:15:07 -0700, Taxed and Spent
wrote:

If it was overbooked, there should have been four people standing up
looking for a seat. Musical Chairs rules should apply.

Airlines overbook every day. It ****es people off.



People don't show up for flights, so airlines overbook. They play the
statistics game and sometimes there are loosers. Just like in Musical
Chairs.

I heard it was not overbooked but the airline wanted seats for its own
employees to get to their jobs.

Story still developing so we will see how it ends. Guy said he was
important Dr. but who knows if he is telling the truth.

If airline did do it for their own convenience it will cost them a
bundle.



If that flight crew was needed to keep the schedules rolling, I am not
sure it was just "for their convenience". But, nobody should have been
boarded that might need to get bumped voluntarily or not. Do that
before the jetway.

If that were the case, why did they oversell the flight? Are they so
disorganized that they cannot foresee these things?

Can you foresee that a plane coming from Atlanta to Detroit isn't
going to arrive because it had a maintenance issue and didn't leave?
Or that it had an inflight problem and had to divert?
Now you have a plane in Detroit scheduled for Miami with no crew.
Hence, you need to find a crew somewhere that can be flown there
in time. It's not unusual.