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??
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The amount they spend in compensation is less than the amount they get for selling the same seat twice and having one person not show up before take off.
They’ve worked out what % of passengers on average never board the plane after buying tickets for whatever reason, so they sell the seats twice.
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