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Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by flukus on Friday April 28, 2017 @01:27AM (#14217048)
Should I be able to sell you a car, have you pay for a car, have you come to collect the car and then tell you there's no car?
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Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by rangibaby on Friday April 28, 2017 @03:23AM (#14217509)
In this case, you're in the car, ready to go.

Wait!

I need that car so my brother can drop his kids off at their grandparents house a state over. You don't want to give it back? Tough, the police are on my side. Thanks for your understanding. Here's an $800 voucher for the next time you buy a car off me.

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Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by wccrawford on Friday April 28, 2017 @08:17AM (#14218767)
"This case" was an unusual incident. The majority of overbooking is handled before anyone enters the plane.

So while your analogy works for the doctor who was dragged off the plane, it doesn't work for the overbooking system in the air travel industry as a whole.

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Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by flukus on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:41AM (#14219721)
Hail Corporate!
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Re:Southwest to Stop Overbooking as United Uproar Echoes by nommm-nommm on Friday April 28, 2017 @10:12AM (#14219498)
There was a Seinfeld episode about this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2GmGSNvaM

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