re: Nobody fly on United Airlines anymore!

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Only airline I've ever flown where I got bumped while having a ticket. I'll never fly United again.

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airlines are allowed to overbook by a percentage, and it's mainly because of people gaming the system and making multiple reservations and generally trying to rip them off, that was the impetus behind the change fees and other penalties, also there are different levels of tickets and fares, it would be highly unlikely that if you would ask the 10 people sitting nearest you what they paid for their ticket that they would all be the same, on top of that there are lifetime ticket holders that can walk up to any flight and will be given a seat regardless of whether the flight is full, and one other thing is that from time to time they have to reposition company personnel to cover the operation of flights or company business down line, and they take priority, usually the people getting bumped, and probably you were as well, are taken care of with free tickets, miles, hotels, booking on next available flight, etc.