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Re:Malaysia Officials, Saying Missing Jet Was Diverted, Open... by confluence on Saturday March 15, 2014 @08:12AM (#7404383)
No. Flights are often under booked. The mean load factor in the US is ~80%. The worst thing about conspiracy theorists is that they have no idea what they're talking about. Leave the real conspiracy thinking to the guys who actually know their stuff.
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Re:Malaysia Officials, Saying Missing Jet Was Diverted, Open... by danso on Saturday March 15, 2014 @09:40AM (#7404608)
Sometimes I don't know what's worse: conspiracy theorists, or people who matter of factly assume there are "guys who actually know their stuff" AND, if they do exist, are the ones who are actually tasked with meaningful action
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Re:Malaysia Officials, Saying Missing Jet Was Diverted, Open... by devnonymous on Saturday March 15, 2014 @01:46PM (#7405360)
Unless you share exactly my specific level of paranoia you are either buying into what ^they^ want you to believe or are a nut case tin-foil hatter ! :-)
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Re:Malaysia Officials, Saying Missing Jet Was Diverted, Open... by shimon_e on Sunday March 16, 2014 @02:03PM (#7410447)
Anyone with access to Expert Flyer can see exactly how many seats are being sold for any given flight.
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Re:Malaysia Officials, Saying Missing Jet Was Diverted, Open... by shimon_e on Saturday March 15, 2014 @03:56PM (#7406095)
This is being mentioned on flyertalk. The maximum amount of bookable tickets was 50 less than the actual amount of seats. They had 4 passengers on standby which were only allowed to board after 5 passengers were no shows.
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Re:Malaysia Officials, Saying Missing Jet Was Diverted, Open... by proexploit on Saturday March 15, 2014 @08:34PM (#7407234)
Do you have the link for that? I'm curious and couldn't find it with a quick search.
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Re:Malaysia Officials, Saying Missing Jet Was Diverted, Open... by tszyn on Saturday March 15, 2014 @12:46PM (#7405105)
I think the parent is saying that the maximum allowed number of passengers was 50 fewer than the # of seats. Meaning that 50 seats were never up for booking.
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Re:Malaysia Officials, Saying Missing Jet Was Diverted, Open... by shimon_e on Saturday March 15, 2014 @03:54PM (#7406085)
Exactly.
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