What are some interesting facts related to Airlines?
Have you ever been stopped from boarding the flight even though there is 20 min remaining for departure? Sometimes even 30–40 minutes in boarding could be a reason. You know why do they do that deliberately? It’s called Overbooking. It is a very common concept among airlines (although not ever y airline uses it. Overbooking simply means showing available seats more than available when you are booking online. This leads to booking more seats than actually there are seats. This is done to fly the plane at a full capacity. Since observation of many years has led the analysts of airlines made to think that even if flights are booked full, they are never taken off full. This is either due to a passenger being late or the passenger not arriving at all or canceling the ticket at the last moment. This led them to devise that they need a system so that they can fly full. So overbooking comes into the picture. By overbooking, they book more than the available seats and if everyone com...