Woman bumped from flight, misses 10K dream cruise

soggymoss said
And everything you just listed is supposed to be a GUARANTEE. What are you not getting by the fact that when you purchase a ticket, you are not GUARANTEED to be on that flight. There are zero GUARANTEES in the airline industry. Read the fine print of those "contracts" when you buy a ticket.

I'm not disagreeing that something needs to be done about it. The only thing I see being done about it though is the airlines charging you another $100 to "guarantee" that you will not be bumped off the flight. They cannot stop their business and potentially delay hundreds to thousands of other customers, all because of one customer.

I disagree completely. Fine print should not allow an airline to sell more of anything than they can possibly deliver. The practice needs to be outlawed or at least reformed to where the airlines cannot drag a passenger who has paid for a fare from the plane and leave them on the tarmac because it might inconvenience their profit making.

Fine print is no defense to being a scum bag and bilking your customers

They have set the whole sytem up so they can screw their customers with impunity. It's un-American. It ought to be illegal.