Almost all airlines aim to make full use of airplane seats and to protect interests of airline companies through flights overbooking. In China, airlines will make the ratio of airfares overbooked and sold less than 5 percent, such as Beijing Flights and Shanghai Flights.
Some friends hold the question that some people can not get on board if flight overbooked? Exactly, when this situation exists, the airline companies usually search for volunteers to change to another flight. If the amounts of volunteers are not enough, the airline company will refuse to make passengers get on board but use cash in compensation. Besides, the airline company will provide the volunteer passengers the official certification compensation and the favorable travel plan and passengers not on board in compensation with cash.
What should we do to avoid being refused to get on board?
We should know some regular rules of flights overbooking.
1 the more popular the flight is, the more chances to be overbooked
2 get to the airport as early as possible. When the airline company prepares to refuse passengers overbooking to get on board, passengers coming later will easily be on target.
3 the more the ticket is discounted, the more possible to be on target. So if you have bought the discounted ticket, check in as early as you can.
What should we do when flight overbooked?
1.Returning the ticket. If you have enough time and do not in a hurry, you can communicate with airline companies to refund the ticket and ask for compensation. However, airline companies do not always choose to solve flight overbooked in this way. But if possible, it is considerate to change to another flight more discounted.
2.Changing the ticket. It is the common way to solve the flight overbooking. And also you should acquire the company to compensate for passengers. No matter refunding or changing tickets, flights china companies do not have the clear regulations. It is wise to let companies provide solutions firstly then negotiate with them.
What airline companies usually do when flights overbooked?
1.warning in advance. Check in department will check the overbooking situation after 4 pm through the ET system the day before the airline will get off. Airline companies will leave special seats for passengers according to the overbooking situation.
2.Increasing the level of flight cabins. When the cabin of lower level is overbooked while the higher level spared, airline companies will arrange the passengers to the cabin of higher level cabin according to the cabin ticket number sequence.
3.Search for the volunteer passengers. Check in department will publish the note of overbooking condition and search for volunteers to change flights of the same company or other companies through the radio and enquiry.
4.Change flights. Check in departments will get in the spare seats of other flights of all airline companies and change the overbooking flight in the way of “GOSHOW” or ”FIM”
5.Scroll disposal. Fights in heavy density of one air routes (such as the Beijing flight) are always overbooked. The next flight will receive overbooking passengers of the last one in scroll so the passengers will not wait so long time and reduce passengers’ dissatisfaction.
6.Compensation. Airline companies always provide passengers accommodation and compensation according to the international common practices or the administration regulations of the airline company. After paid the compensation, passengers will fill in the <compensation statements> and agree the solving method against passengers’ all possible claims, costs and losses by the way of their giving up the booked flight.
7.Publicity of overbooking knowledge. To ensure the normal operation and protect the passengers’ interests, airline companies will broaden the publicity of flights overbooking to make public a comprehensive understanding of the business way and compensation measures of flights overbooking, apart from the administrative regulations of standardizing flights overbooking.
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