What if you can't afford a plane ticket to attend a funeral? Should airlines give you one? Without overselling flights travel would cost more for everybody (at

What if you can't afford a plane ticket to attend a funeral? Should airlines give you one? Without overselling flights travel would cost more for everybody (at least in theory). Job interviews are readily rescheduled if you're bumped against your will. Airlines already have bereavement flights that give the bereaved priority and extra flexibility. We already have regulations that compensate people who are bumped against their will so it's not in the airlines best interest to do so, it's expensive. BTW, my mom missed her dad's funeral due to the 1981 air traffic controller strike.