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Side note: you can also "fly on stand-by", which means you're the first
to go if there isn't enough room. It's cheaper than regular tickets,
but I'm not sure by how much. Or if you get less compensation if you
are bumped to a later flight.
Steve
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 01:20:23 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
wrote:
>
>
> Jasper Janssen wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 03:19:43 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
> > wrote:
> > > good strategy because I have several times been bumped from flights and
> >
> > _bumped_ from a flight? You mean, as in, you've payed for a ticket,
> > plane leaves on time, you were there, but there was no room for you
> > because some bigwig payed them bigtime to get in ahead of you? Is that
> > _legal_?!
>
> It's not a matter of who paid how much. Airlines overbook. That usually
> works because not everyone shows up. When they all do, the airlines are
> required to first ask for volunteers to give up their seats in exchange
> for a payment of the airline's choosing. Should not enough people
> volunteer (and I usually do if I have the flexibility) the airline can
> use an algorithm of their choosing to select involuntary participants,
> who then get the same payment, (plus, I believe, a free round trip)
>
> I shan't respond to your antiprivatization rantings except to say that
> privatization always works. When it doesn't work, someone somewhere is
> not properly allocating costs, so therefore it wasn't actually
> privatization. Neat escape clause, that, eh? Nevertheless, it's true.
>
> Lines that cannot pay for themselves should be abandoned.
> Car usage should neither be encouraged nor discouraged by the
> government. Charge for the roads that are most congested, perhaps.
>
> This is straying into debate rather than fun. Please respond, if you
> must, in debate rather than fun.
>
> --
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