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>Nearly every aspect of flying in the US is abusive. Over-booking a flight should be illegal. I don’t care about being compensated for it - if I book a flight,
by tw04 3y ago
>Nearly every aspect of flying in the US is abusive. Over-booking a flight should be illegal. I don’t care about being compensated for it - if I book a flight, that seat should be mine.
I agree, but if you want that put in place, expect the price of flights to at least triple in cost. I'm fine with that - most Americans would lose their minds and demand the old system of overbooked cheap flights come back.
- EduardoBautista 3y agoWhy would it come close to tripling? I don’t believe they oversell all of the seats three times on every flight.
- tw04 3y agoThat’s not how it works… airlines have a minimum load factor for a flight to be profitable, generally 75-80%. They over book with an assumption that X% of people won’t show up based on decades of data. The hotel industry does the exact same thing. If you tell them they can’t overbook at all, their options are to either cut flights or raise prices. That also means all the discount tickets that make up that overbooking amount goes away. I guess if you’ve only ever bought full fare tickets you might only see a 30% increase, but if you’re only ever booking full fare, you aren’t the one getting bumped.