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ROD posted...

I love how when it comes to individual people, CE and society in general is cruel as fuck ("personal accountability!", "be fit to survive!", "bootstraps!", "pull your own weight!") but when it is about billionaire corporations people suddenly acre about their "feelings" and care about their "thin margins" and losing even an inch of profitability, literally corporate wellfare mentality.

They will literally just pass the cost onto the consumer. The reason why overbooking is a protected policy is because airlines were able to successfully argue that it was necessary. The reason why people have to be compensated when bumped is the compromise. Flight is not a right, nor should it be. Your need to be at a certain place, and you paid for a ticket, but you are not guaranteed to be there at a certain time and the inconvenience to you is relatively low, and you are compensated for your trouble. I think that is an entirely fair compromise, and the macro matters much more than the micro.

Basically, I would rather people get get bumped than have my tickets be more expensive. Because the incidence rate is really low, and even when it does happen, there is often someone to volunteer, I have don't particularly care.

If they could stop overbooking with no negative repercussions to the industry's survival and the customers, I'd happy to have them stop. Airlines do not WANT to overbook flights, and they don't do it in order to make more money than they should. It's one of the few corporation practices that has no real malice behind it.
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