On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 4:02:23 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 12:44:23 -0400, Frank "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?
Short answer?
Yes. They ROUTINELY overbook these flights, counting on some
passengers not showing up. Then when they need to move crew members at
the last minute the brown stuff hits the fan. Sounds like the flight
crew movement was last minute - possibly THEY had been bumped from a
previous flight (which happens more often than you'd believe). They
bounce the crew to accomodate passengers, counting on a light load on
a following flight - then end up with it overbooked too. Then they
don't offer enough incentive for someone to figure it's worth while
taking a later flight.
Offer to put them up at a classt hotel and give them tickets to a
baseball game or something, and a guaranteed morning flight, and
they'd have to fight off the volunteers.

They basically did that, offering $800 and got no takers.