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Subject:	Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
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Date:	Tue, 9 Mar 1999 00:41:34 GMT
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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_?! Jasper

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		Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
(...) Not only legal, but a completely normal daily business practice. I understand the interest they make on tickets paid for bumped flights is staggering. And that's my conspiracy theory of the day. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
(...) Naah.. I think _bumped_from_a_flight means: you're flying over the ocean. Plane hits a speedbump and whoops..there you go. From 15 km hight falling towards the (at that speed rock-hard) water... Mark (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
Yes, see for example this headline from last week's Atlanta Journal/Constitution - "OVERBOOKED: Delta 'denied' 13,449: Atlanta air carrier ranks seventh among U.S. airlines" During the past year(?) they had to turn that many people involuntarily. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
(...) I've tried. They won't. You can waste lots of time trying, though. Also, it doesn't matter the cause, the point is that they claim that rips THEY cause are part of the luggage "protecting its contents" process and therefore normal. Therefore I (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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