I was wondering why it seems like some US flights are far less overbooked than they could be. For example, I often fly PVD-PHL, and it's usually only allowed to be overbooked by 2 or 3 or a 737 and the flight usually goes out with seats empty. This seems especially odd given that US is famous for overbooking heavily.

Related: I am flying PVD-PHL on flight 1467 on Friday Oct 5th. Does anyone know how far overbooked that is? They're not selling anymore tickets, and I'd love to get bumped.

Related: I am flying PVD-PHL on flight 1467 on Friday Oct 5th. Does anyone know how far overbooked that is? They're not selling anymore tickets, and I'd love to get bumped.

The booking limit is 139 on a -400 (132 coach seats). I presume that it's booked to that if they're not selling any more seats.

Jim

The overbooking limit is determined by US Airways Inventory services, who analyse the historical performance of each flight, taking into account how many 'no-shows' there have been in the past, and how heavily booked the flight has been previously.