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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It should be illegal to deny a person their flight if they paid for the ticket and checked in on time.  We need a law.  This incident makes this obvious.[/quote]

Would you be willing to pay 25% more for your tickets for this? Most airlines overbook since they get many no-shows. If they didn't oversell, they'd need to raise prices.[/quote]
Well, most tickets are non-refundable, so even if you don't show up, the airline still gets your money.

And what other industry is allowed to sell people something that doesn't actually exist?  The airlines make a choice to oversell; fine.  But they should bear the costs of that, not their passengers.  If that means shelling out 4 times the ticket price when they have to kick someone off a flight, then that's what it means.  [/quote]

A lot of them. Cellphone companies and internet providers sell "unlimited data" but it won't actually work if everyone tries to use unlimited data that much -- the network can't handle it.

Same with the phone company. If everyone tried to make a call at once, the system couldn't handle it. They know that no one really would try to do that (except on 9/11.. then everything came to a halt because of being overloaded).

Or the water company. They dont' have enough water pressue if everyone were to take a shower and flush the toilet at once. But I don't see them advertisign limits on water.

How about the Dulles Toll Road? I pay a fee to use the road, but in rush hour, I barely move. I thought I'm paying to get from point A to B in a speedy manner?[/quote]

That is a ridiculous argument and you know it.   Everyone knows that all of those services you mentioned are never going to be used by all people at the same time.  But when you have 250 seats on a flight and they sell 260, supposedly all of those passengers are going to be expected to fly on the flight you sold them.  If not, you need to compensate properly [/quote]

They did. $800 to people who volunteered to get bumped, and some were probably on $150 tickets.[/quote]

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