Some relatives of mine recently had their vacation spoilt by being "bumped off" their flights on both the outward and return legs.This was in spite of having checked in early and having boarding cards in their possession. Evidence is that the airline knew that they were overfilled eight hours before the departure time, so they re-routed a group of ten passengers, causing them to lose a day of their vacation. The same thing happened on the way back! Ironically, all the people had paid a surcharge to use that particular airline. Is there any site which gives information on the average overbooking by the various airlines? I have looked at dozens of sites and found nothing useful yet, using normal searches. Have we an insider out there who can point me in the right direction?
Is there a site where I can get statistics on flight over-bookings?
Have you tried www.DOT.gov? The number of tickets sold on a particular flight kinda goes by the "no show" factor of the flights in the previous years around that time of year. For example, if an average of 10 customers tend not to show up for their flights in previous years, that flight may be oversold by 10 this time around, and thats when EVERYONE shows up. Your relatives are definitely entitled to compensation if they were involuntarily denied boarding on the flight they booked. ***unless they bought a really cheap ticket through a cheap travel agency (priceline to name one). sometimes you are not entitled to oversale rights with those tickets, and you are the first to get bumped.
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