can someone explain why its ok to overbook flights in the first place? like its hundreds of dollars and theres literally assigned seats wtf
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exactly this, here's MR take with a longer linked piece http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/04/today-good-day-remember-great-julian-simon.html … it's clever and generally efficient, they just fucked it up
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it seems like theres maybe a middle ground between "deliberately underfilled" and "every flight ive been on has to bump five people"
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They calculate with big statistical models to allow for no shows, missed connections, weather delays, etc... Sometimes "overbooking" isnt.
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It's often moving people from cancelled flights to one that isn't cancelled.
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