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Overbooking

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Overbooking: The practice of selling more airline seats than are available on a specific flight, to make up for no-shows. Usually backfires on the carrier and at times can create much consumer ill-will. Requires passengers to be ' bumped ' not always voluntarily. To some extent, happens in the hotel industry as well.

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