No-shows - the term relating to passengers or either arrive late or do not arrive at all to travel on their booked flight.
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Offline connection - a journey where the passenger travels on multiple planes using multiple airlines.
Rather, inventory management departments rigorously examine the history of particular flights to determining how many no-shows typically occur, and subsequently decide how many seats to authorize for sale.
They examine the history of particular flights, in the process determining how many no-shows typically occur, and then decide how much to overbook that particular flight. The goal is to have the overbooking match the number of no-shows.
A standby reservation is conditional and is on a waiting list, in case of any no-shows.
STAR: Standard Terminal Arrival Route, for inbound IFR traffic.
STOL: Short Take-Off and Landing.
Practice of confirming more seats or rooms than are available, in order to protect against no-shows.
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Overbooking: The practice by the airlines and hotels of confirming more seats on an aircraft or rooms in a hotel that is actually available. Overbooking is designed to protect the airlines and hotels from no-shows.
 See also: Service, Airport, Airline, Direct, Aircraft
  
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