On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:47:40 +0100, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at 7:42:28 PM UTC-4, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 00:16:01 +0100, Unquestionably Confused wrote:

On 4/11/2017 5:32 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 23:26:59 +0100, Taxed and Spent
wrote:

On 4/11/2017 3:18 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 02:50:30 +0100, Ed Pawlowski wrote:


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Why couldn't the employee just stand?

FAA regulations, for one.

It's an employee not a customer.

Anyway you can stand on a bus, and planes are safer than buses.

Or.... get two smaller people to share a seat. Someone sit on
somebody's lap. Jesus Christ can't people think outside the box anymore?

When was the last time you saw a member of the flight crew standing
during a take off or landing?

I've never been on a plane where the airline was so incompetant they sold more tickets than seats. Can't they add up?

Actually, the can. They want every seat filled. If they sold exactly
the same number of tickets as seats, when someone cancels at the last
minute or fails to show up, they'd have an empty seat.

No, why do you think there are cheap tickets available due to cancellations?

To prevent that,
they sell more tickets than seats, knowing that some will cancel, and
generally enough people will be willing to postpone their flight (for
considerations) that it all works out reasonably satisfactorily for
everyone. They have sophisticated algorithms for deciding how much
to overbook a given flight.

You can't predict how many will cancel. Sometimes it will be zero, in which case you have too many people on the plane. That is totally unacceptable.

Does it make sense from their point of view? Absolutely. Is it
sharp practice? No doubt.

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