| Airlines often assume that some passengers will miss check-in times, and so overbooking of flights is not uncommon. |
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| With no flights available due to overbooking and the official weigh-in only six hours away, her dream of competing was again in jeopardy. |
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| I don't know, maybe I should use a theme of redemption from evil, or overbooking airline reservations, or something like that. |
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| What's worse is that there are people with reservations, but no seat allocations, the result of overbooking. |
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| One way around that, of course, would be for the airlines to stop overbooking. |
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| Can it be said that there are certain airlines that make overbooking a matter of professional practice? |
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| You might end up taking too few reservations, sending seats out empty, or overbooking too much. |
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| He added that Ryanair has a policy of not overbooking their flights. |
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| Consumers will be familiar with the uncertainties of airlines overbooking flights and reservation systems that indicate a flight is available when this is not the case. |
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| As their numbers have increased, passengers have faced difficult situations, including cancellations, overbooking, loss of luggage and delays. |
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| The Commission will shortly be proposing a reinforcement of passenger rights, including compensation where travellers are delayed or denied boarding due to overbooking by airlines. |
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| If overbooking were abolished, air prices would inevitably rise and we cannot expect either consumers to put up with this or indeed the airlines, which are up against international competition. |
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| EasyJet has some of the highest load factors in the industry and it is unusual for EASYJET to deny boarding of passengers due to overbooking. |
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| Organisers defended overbooking the arena, saying they are never able to guarantee spaces for ticket holders. |
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| In the aviation business, overbooking is not illegal and is a common commercial practice among airlines. |
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| This trend is due, among other things, to the development of low-cost carriers and to the increasingly frequent use of charter companies, which do not tend to integrate overbooking into their working methods. |
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| In particular, air passengers' rights to information, compensation for denied boarding due to overbooking and compensation in the event of an accident could be extended to other modes. |
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| It also envisages a revision of the minimum sum of compensation to be paid to the passenger by the air carrier denying boarding due to overbooking. |
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| However, if they hold out for the fixed rate, they run the risk that other passengers will accept a lesser offer in an adequate number to eliminate the overbooking. |
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| You should know that the law provides that overbooking brings about administrative sanctions upon the hotelier, which may cause a relegation of the accommodation to the next lower class for a year. |
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| Of course, we could also eliminate overbooking, as the low-cost carriers have done, if, on the other hand, flights were non-exchangeable and a no-show meant that a flight was automatically forfeited. |
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| Since spring, travellers have complained widely about cancelled or delayed flights, long check-in delays, lost baggage, overbooking and high prices. |
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| The 'denied boarding' regulations were meant to deter airlines from overbooking flights, not to force them to pay for the over-reaction of Eurocontrol. |
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| Air Canada submitted it is common in the air transport industry to sell more tickets for a flight than available seats, a practice known as overbooking. |
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| In some services, there is a need for a general system of automatic and limited compensation and refunds for some eventualities, as is already the case for overbooking by airlines. |
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| With summer holidays not far away, it's time to review what overbooking is, why airlines overbook their flights and what you as a traveller can do about it. |
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| Overbooking If a flight is overbooked, the airline will follow its standard boarding procedure. |
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