Comments on: Don’t be Oversold http://firewallender.com/dont-be-oversold/ Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:08:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Marina Martin http://firewallender.com/dont-be-oversold/comment-page-1/#comment-4859 Marina Martin Wed, 15 Apr 2009 06:36:10 +0000 http://firewallender.com/uncategorized/dont-be-oversold/#comment-4859 A couple years ago I lived half in Portland, half in Salt Lake City, and frequently flew to one city for a meeting and back on the same day. (Flying with no luggage = liberating!) Southwest would constantly overbook the Friday 4pm SLC -> PDX flight and need volunteers willing to wait a whole 30 minutes for the 4:30pm flight. I volunteered six times, and probably could have done it more had I been willing to go to the airport early. I agree with you that it doesn't seem very efficient to keep overbooking a flight that you constantly need volunteers for. Plus, there's always the risk that no one will volunteer, and forcibly bumping someone is bad all the way around. A couple years ago I lived half in Portland, half in Salt Lake City, and frequently flew to one city for a meeting and back on the same day. (Flying with no luggage = liberating!) Southwest would constantly overbook the Friday 4pm SLC -> PDX flight and need volunteers willing to wait a whole 30 minutes for the 4:30pm flight. I volunteered six times, and probably could have done it more had I been willing to go to the airport early.

I agree with you that it doesn’t seem very efficient to keep overbooking a flight that you constantly need volunteers for. Plus, there’s always the risk that no one will volunteer, and forcibly bumping someone is bad all the way around.

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