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If you know you are on an overbooked flight?
In other words, not able to get a seat assignment, and checking the flight
on the airline's website does, indeed, show all seats assigned - What is your best approach to actually be able to board and fly to your destination on the scheduled flight you bought a ticket for? TIA for any assistance A R Pickett Remover lower case "e" to respond |
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If you know you are on an overbooked flight?
What is your best approach to actually be able to board and fly to your
destination on the scheduled flight you bought a ticket for? Show up early so in the unlikely event that there's a waiting list, you're at the top of it. A seat map that shows no available seats doesn't necessarily mean that the flight is oversold. For some reason, they often hold back seats for same day assignment. On flights that are oversold, usually there's enough no-shows that everyone gets a seat. (That's the point of overbooking, after all.) If a flight actually is oversold, they ask for volunteers and usually get them before denying boarding to anyone. In all the years I've been flying, only once have I been denied boarding. It was a very unusual situation -- we were flying out of Binghamton NY on a small jet headed south on the first day of school winter vacation. Every school in NY has the same week off, so every seat in the state was sold out. We showed up 45 minutes ahead, which is pretty early for BGM, and found that the three of us were numbers 49, 50, and 51 in a 50 seat plane. Oops. The other two went ahead, I ended up taking a taxi to Scranton where there were seats because Pennsylvania's vacation was the following week. By the way, if you're denied boarding, demand the $200 as cash or check, not a flight voucher. Vouchers are for volunteers. |
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If you know you are on an overbooked flight?
"A R Pickett" wrote in message et... In other words, not able to get a seat assignment, and checking the flight on the airline's website does, indeed, show all seats assigned - What is your best approach to actually be able to board and fly to your destination on the scheduled flight you bought a ticket for? TIA for any assistance A R Pickett Remover lower case "e" to respond most airlines do not open all seats for advance seat selection and not being able to select a seat does not necessarily mean the flight is oversold. |
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If you know you are on an overbooked flight?
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