Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes

Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by sushid on Thursday April 27, 2017 @05:47PM (#14215030)

Edit: technically true but this fact is misleading. JetBlue's rate of passengers denied boarding is actually almost 3 times higher than United. [0]

[0] https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/docs/reso...

Oct - Dec 2016 Passengers Denied Boarding by U.S. Airlines. United's Denied Boarding is 0.40 per 10k passengers vs JetBlue DB of 1.19 per 10k passengers.

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Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by rdl on Thursday April 27, 2017 @05:53PM (#14215073)

JetBlue doesn't overbook, but they do swap A320 for A321 which have 50 fewer seats, fairly randomly, which leads to a lot of IDBs (you can ask for volunteers and get them when it's 1-5 people on a 200 person flight; you are probably screwed if you need 50 people on a 250 person flight.)

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