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.
Overbooking
Airlines occasionally overbook flights, meaning that they book more passengers for a flight than they have seats on the same flight.
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.
Overbooking
In seeking to maximize revenue across their networks and serve as many passengers as possible, airlines sometimes overbook flights, meaning they book more passengers than they have seats on a given flight.
Overbooking
Practice of confirming more seats or rooms than are available, in order to protect against no-shows.
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OP-UP: Short for operational upgrade. This is a type of upgrade that is awarded when coach is overbooked and they bump some passengers up to first class if there are any seats open. The pecking order starts with top elite members, etc.
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