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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Meh. Sometimes flight attendants and gate agents go on power trips or want [b]to get their standby buddies on the flight[/b]. I would believe the passengers over the people on the plane.[/quote]

I fly standby often, and I have never seen this happen. [/quote]

I'm talking about airline employees or friends who are trying to fly standby. I saw this happen. [/quote]

Of course it happens.  They will bump someone if someone has higher status or an employee.  [/quote]

That is absolutely not correct 99.9% of the time. Does it happen infrequently? Of course. But straight up taking a revenue passenger off a flight for a higher status passenger or an NRSA employee? Will get punished for sure for violating clear policy.[/quote]

The only situation in which you would get truly "bumped" because of low status would be if a flight was oversold and no volunteers were found. IDBs are much less common nowadays because the airlines have significantly increased their offer prices for volunteers, post-David Dao.[/quote]

They are overbooking each flight hoping people will cancel or not get on the flight so it's regularly an issue now.  [/quote]

Last year there were 3 IDBs per 100k passengers in the US.

https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/air-travel-consumer-report-december-2022-full-year-2022-numbers#:~:text=For%20the%20fourth%20quarter%20of,the%20fourth%20quarter%20of%202019.

If an average flight has 150 passengers, that's one involuntary denied boarding per 667 flights.

I would classify that as rare enough for me not to be substantively concerned about it.[/quote]

Argh per 222 flights, sorry. Still not concerned.[/quote]

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