US Department of Transportation have just put in place new set of rules for airlines. While browsing through it, I saw that they increased the compensation for the passengers bumped from overbooked flights. Now maybe I am stupid. Maybe I am just plain dumb. But in the name of Cthulhu would the whole industry do something like this? If they have to bump people from flights every goddamn time due to them constantly overbooking, maybe it's time to do something really, really innovative? Like what everyone and their uncle were doing for decades? Like selling no more tickets than there are seats on the goddamned plane?
I would not call the Chinese very creative (education focused on memorizing tends to curb the creativity), but they do know that you do not sell more tickets than you have seats. Russian airlines are sometimes just plain nuts and always greedy, but they do not overbook either. Air Asia (a Malaysian low-cost carrier) will make you pay for everything, but... yep, they do not overbook. I have nagging suspicion that even (in)famous Ryan Air (aka "5-pound ticket, 100-pound additional fees") does not overbook... So why should US airlines hate passengers that much?.. One more reason I'm not going to US...
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