eli5 How and why do airline flights get oversold?

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To the point at which they need to reject passengers ? I can only think that it’s due to poor management and organisation ? Does anyone have any legitimate reason ?

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I studied hotel management, they do it as well. It’s a calculated estimate of how much people will not show up so at the end you have a 100% occupation at hopefully 100%+ the revenue.

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