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Re:When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines by ericpauley on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @10:33PM (#43110794)
Overbooking is not a mistake, though. People miss flights for many reasons, and the airlines predict this with impressive accuracy, to the point that they can afford to pay tremendous sums for being wrong and yet still come out ahead.
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Re:When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines by branko_d on Thursday February 20, 2025 @01:35AM (#43111773)
> afford to pay tremendous sums for being wrong

Or they can just haul you forcefully from the flight you paid for:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Express_passenger_...

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Re:When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines by scarface_74 on Thursday February 20, 2025 @02:03AM (#43111913)
This is ridiculous. There must have been some amount of money that would have convinced four people to deplane voluntarily. $800 was ridiculously low.
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Re:When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines by ericpauley on Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:37AM (#43114473)
Case in point! Imagine how much United(Express) settled this for.
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