The first claim in your first link... exactly what I expected to find: "By overbooking it actually does help keep the fares down" Money. Low low prices. That

The first claim in your first link... exactly what I expected to find: "By overbooking it actually does help keep the fares down" Money. Low low prices. That's why people that have paid for tickets are getting beat up and kicked off planes. In all sorts of other aspects of our world we're expected to gladly accept higher costs as the price of our "values." Higher energy costs, mandates for various types of insurance, taxes to fund one agenda or another and on and on. Perhaps you haven't considered this yet but delivering the seat that a paying customer has paid for and not subjecting any of these otherwise compliant paying customers to the possibility of being thrown off a plane --- by martial force if necessary --- is a "value" we might aspire to. And if that means maybe you are a little more careful about just how often you bop across the continent in a 600 mph jet because the cost is a little higher, or you can't play ticket games with as much abandon as you're used to well... perhaps that isn't really the end of the world.