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Airplane seats are oversold, so airlines don't care.

• kube-system 4y ago
  Depends on the airline, not all overbook.
  • dylan604 4y ago
    Name please. I want to fly that airline. If you say "my broter Steve's a pilot, and he's never overbooked," I'm going to be very upset
    • kube-system 4y ago
      Southwest and JetBlue don't overbook. https://www.southwest.com/help/changes-and-cancellations/overbooking https://www.southwest.com/help/changes-and-cancellations/ove... https://www.jetblue.com/legal/notices-to-customers https://www.jetblue.com/legal/notices-to-customers However, this isn't a guarantee you won't get bumped. This just means that the maximum number of tickets sold to customers equals the number of seats on the plane. If the plane changes, so do the number of available seats. And not all passengers are customers. Some may be crew deadheading to another location. More generally, it is less common for low cost carriers to overbook flights because their passengers tend to be cost-conscious vacationers who paid for the flight out of their own pocket and aren't about to forfeit the fare. Usually these passengers show up at a very high rate. So there usually isn't even a reason to want to overbook these flights.