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Subject:	Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
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Date:	Thu, 11 Mar 1999 01:35:21 GMT
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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. They overbook by a certain percentage because they know that a percentage won't show. When everyone (or at least more than there are seats on the plane) does show, they ask for volunteers. If, after that, they still have too many people, they look for Larry so they can bump him ;-) I used to work at the reservations for a major-chain hotel. Same thing. Always overbook based on a percentage (which varies due to day of the week, holidays, phase of the moon, and who knows what other factors that might predict no-shows) and keep a listing of other area hotels handy in the odd even that everyone arrives. Belive me, we rarely had to bump anyone... maybe our percentage-guesser was better than that of the airlines. -- Steven | svore at mindspring .com | kf4fbk | TC++MS++#15LS+M+HalYB64m

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		Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
(...) Won't happen, I would usually already have volunteered (I volunteer on Fridays but not on Sundays as I have more flexibility at the start). (...) and maybe your load factor was lower... the typical hotel load factor averages in the 60s these (...) (25 years ago, 11-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: Carryon vs. checked (Re: WTB: 6557 (really, really badly) and 6861
(...) This reminded me of my "twilight zone" trip two years ago - driving across the states as a vacation(1) ended up hitting Minneapolis fairly late - tried to get a room and to misuse a quote "there were none to be found" after trying about 8 (...) (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
(...) _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 (25 years ago, 9-Mar-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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