Personally, I think overselling tickets should be cited as fraudulent.
If they offer a ticket for a 12 o'clock flight, and I purchase a ticket for a 12 o'clock flight, they better provide me with a 12 o'clock flight. That was the agreement and binding contract upon purchasing the ticket.

If I go to the store and buy a Sony TV and they give me a JVC, that's fraudulent, so how is this different? "Oh, sorry, we only had two Sony TVs but we sell four just in case, you my friend get the JVC, sorry, that's just our policy and the way we do business." (Bait and switch!)

I'm sure there is a lawsuit there waiting to be battled out. But everyone lets the airlines bully us because they need to fly - there fore the bully wins in the real world.

FUCK is the correct word when they fuck you over.

Back when airlines were more heavily regulated there was Rule 240: "an airline with a delayed or canceled flight had to transfer passengers to another carrier if the second carrier could get passengers to the destination more quickly than the original airline."

The rule is now obsolete, but most American airlines will still abide by it. While most airlines tend to keep this rule a secret, passengers who speak up (and sound like they know what they are talking about) can sometimes get reasonable compensation.

That said, most airlines today are shit and will do whatever they can to make an extra buck.
>> ^Sagemind:

Personally, I think overselling tickets should be cited as fraudulent.
If they offer a ticket for a 12 o'clock flight, and I purchase a ticket for a 12 o'clock flight, they better provide me with a 12 o'clock flight. That was the agreement and binding contract upon purchasing the ticket.
If I go to the store and buy a Sony TV and they give me a JVC, that's fraudulent, so how is this different? "Oh, sorry, we only had two Sony TVs but we sell four just in case, you my friend get the JVC, sorry, that's just our policy and the way we do business." (Bait and switch!)
I'm sure there is a lawsuit there waiting to be battled out. But everyone lets the airlines bully us because they need to fly - there fore the bully wins in the real world.
FUCK is the correct word when they fuck you over.

I love it when a flight has like 40 people on it and I get to go to the back and have a whole row to myself!

*british

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