0 to sell more tickets or places for an aircraft, holiday, etc. than are available:
1 to sell more hotel rooms, seats on an aircraft, etc., than are available:
There are very good airline companies - as most of them are, in fact - which, when they have overbooked, take the initiative to offer compensation themselves.
We are aware that overbooking will never be reduced to zero by the airlines, because that is how they manage imponderables.
Can it be said that there are certain airlines that make overbooking a matter of professional practice?
First, if this were done away with and there was not overbooking, by what percentage is it likely that fares would have to rise?
There are apparently other airline companies, however, who fail to inform their passengers that they have a right to compensation where flights are overbooked.
Is not overbooking a matter of basic contract between carrier and passenger and has not the passenger a right of action against the carrier?
Would not this provide the means of paying for the expense which the airlines now say compels them to overbook?
The days of waiting helplessly while airlines cancelled, delayed and overbooked flights will soon be over.
