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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why airlines are allowed to overbook.  I've always expected that if I pay for a seat, that I will get to be on that flight.  Will never book a flight with United in the future.

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All airlines overbook, so it's pretty difficult to avoid that situation if you plan to fly at all.[/quote]

NP here.  All airlines overbook because it is in their best business interests to do so.  It's profitable for them.  But it seems to me - and many others here, I'm sure - that the cost of doing business that way is that you often have to bump people and compensate them appropriately.  There is always a price where people will agree to give up their seats.  The airlines should keep incresing the compensation offered until enough people have volunteered.  If regulations limit the airlines' ability to increase the comepnsation to effective levels, perhaps those regulations should be reconsidered.  With all flights on all airlines routinely overbooked, voluntary bumping is now the norm.  Someone should ensure that this process works as well for the passengers as for the airlines.  I say this as someone who has given up my seat on a number of occasions in the past when the price has been right.  [/quote]

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