Woman bumped from flight, misses 10K dream cruise

dtc said

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.

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Indeed, if the seat is paid for, a person should not lose the seat. Overbooking should be illegal because once all of the seats are sold, it shouldn't matter whether someone shows up or not, the seat is already paid for. Overbooking is purely greed at work. Instead of dealing with overbooking, simply raise the price to make up for the loss of revenue from overbooking, an extra $5-$10 per ticket to not have to worry about overbooking would be worth it to me.

If a particular seat on a particular flight is paid for, the airlines shouldn't be able to force the ticket holder to give up the seat. I expect to receive the service I paid for. The airlines may legally be allowed to overbook, but there's nothing right about doing it.