Comment by ericpauley
4 months ago
Overbooking is not a mistake, though. People miss flights for many reasons, and the airlines predict this with impressive accuracy, to the point that they can afford to pay tremendous sums for being wrong and yet still come out ahead.
> afford to pay tremendous sums for being wrong
Or they can just haul you forcefully from the flight you paid for:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Express_passenger_...
Case in point! Imagine how much United(Express) settled this for.
This is ridiculous. There must have been some amount of money that would have convinced four people to deplane voluntarily. $800 was ridiculously low.