It's worth pointing out that this article is just completely flat-out wrong. Kevin Drum is just completely screwing up here. The stats he references do not poi

It's worth pointing out that this article is just completely flat-out wrong. Kevin Drum is just completely screwing up here. The stats he references do not point to de-planing - a term he invents only for this article. All those involuntary denial of boardings he references are before passengers board the plane. Which makes a huge difference. The paper he links to (indirectly) makes zero mention of passengers being kicked off planes. They only make reference to involuntary denial of boarding, which happens before passengers get on the plane. I think there's only one other comment in this entire thread that makes this point. Just thinking it through a bit, you can see it makes no sense. If a plane is oversold, how the hell do they let the passengers board? You'd have two people trying to sit in the same seat.