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Old 04-12-2017, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Paper1 View Post
I believe they said flight was overbooked with no takers for a later flight. Picked name by random, according to what I heard. Should airline held up flight until he walked off on his own? Mistake made was letting him back on plane once decision was made. Overbooking is a fact of life, tickets and cancelations would be much more expensive without it.
It really wasn't an "overbooking" the flight was booked and the passengers on the plane when a flight crew of 4 came up and bumped 4 passengers of because they were needed to man a flight the next morning.

They offered $800.00 3 of the 4 took the money! They could have offered $1350.00 by law.