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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There are always going to be some passengers who don’t show up for the flight, so airlines figure that 99% of the time they can safely oversell one or two or three or something like that – tickets, so that there won’t be empty seat on fight that costs many thousands of dollars. Occasionally they miss.

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