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United drags passenger off the plane because of overbooking.

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The GTAA (Toronto's international airport, YYZ) is privately run. Every day, between 5% and 25% of flights are cancelled for some reason. That costs the GTAA money.
Perhaps they should overbook the runways and gates using an algorithm to compensate for this loss of revenue. Then, if all the flights actually do show up, some (I would suggest focusing on airlines that overbook the most) get told "sorry, but you cannot be accommodated at this time because of runway / gate overbooking. You can either try to land later, or go to another airport." (Which also may be overbooked). The airport would give them a "voucher" though.
It may be a good business practice for airlines, but I'll bet they wouldn't like it to happen to them.
I would argue that the airports, FAA, and airlines already do exactly what you describe, "overbook" airports. Your statistics even bear this out.

Airports, FAA, and the airlines know that there are weather issues, mechanical issues, priority (air force one) aircraft, and ATC staffing issues that will reduce airport capacity at times, and affect the number of flights that can be handled at any given airport. This is especially true during winter and thunderstorm seasons. They could just not "overbook" the airport, and reduce capacity by 10-20% just to ensure that when bad things happen all flights won't have any delays. This would cost airlines, and passengers, and airport authorities, tons of $.

Or, they can deal with these delays as they come up, like they do now.
 

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I just spent $10 more on a car rental becuz it was Hertz, not Thrifty... So there is hope for us, yet.

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Was that $10/day? $10 for how long of a period?

For flights I find it boils down to available routes and schedules, as well as price. If I have a choice there are a few airlines I won't fly, but I'm pretty open to the rest.
 

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Was that $10/day? $10 for how long of a period?

It was $10 for a 2-day rental ($5/day) rental. I'll admit... I did dither over it for a bit.
 

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United Airlines is Offering Cheap Flights to Europe to Make Up for Its Horrible Month
By Megam Friedman/ Lifestyle/ Cosmopolitan/ cosmopolitan.com

"Round-trip flights are as low as $364.

United Airlines has been having a not-so-great month. First, video showed aviation officers violently dragging a doctor off a flight to make room for its staff members. And then, an adorably gigantic rabbit named Simon died while in the airline’s care. Those were two public-relations nightmares for the airline, but now they’re making major changes—and dropping prices, too.

According to the New York Times, United will now up its financial incentives for people to get bumped from overbooked flights; you can now get up to $10,000 in travel certificates if you volunteer. The airline is also changing its booking and boarding processes to make sure that people who have boarded flights never have to give up their seat, and starting a new team to deal with overbooked flights.

And at the same time, flights just so happen to be super cheap with United at the moment. Scott Keyes, who runs the website Scott’s Cheap Flights, told Travel + Leisure that there has been a “noticeable drop” in fares on United since the incident with Dr. David Dao. And he assumes that means that customers were steering clear of the airline. “I’m not privy to United’s internal numbers,” Keyes told the site, “but whatever drop in bookings they were seeing must have scared theme enough to slash prices.” According to CNNMoney, United’s profits did drop 69 percent in the first quarter, but that actually was better than expected, and only because of high fuel and labor costs...."

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"Scott Keyes, who runs the website Scott’s Cheap Flights... assumes that means that customers were steering clear of the airline. 'I’m not privy to United’s internal numbers,” Keyes told the site, “but whatever drop in bookings they were seeing must have scared theme enough to slash prices'."

Silver Lining: More seats for travelling flight crews... Less bumping.

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I am hoping for a good experience because of all this. Now I just have to hope the government doesn't shut down and close the national parks!
 
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