It just seems like it happens so often, and airlines will sometimes offer you three times the price of the ticket just to stay a few extra hours. Seems like it’d be easy to just…stop selling tickets once the plane is full??
In: Economics
The airlines don’t have to “pay extra” to passengers who are bumped. They’re given vouchers towards another flight on the same airline. So really they’re giving up some profits on a future flight that may or may not be full. So it doesn’t really cost them as much. Plus I’d be willing to bet a big percentage of the vouchers never get used.
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