Originally Posted by
mikey2124
I have a friend who works for Virgin at LGW- he tells me that they often oversell the Orlando flights in peak seasons and it often always ends in problems, he says all of the people often turn up for the flight!
The same goes for all flights in very high demand. Airlines have a pretty good idea exactly how many people will turn up for each specific flight, based on years of experience, and calculated by taking into account variables like time of day, day of week, date, holidays, etc.
Originally Posted by
mikey2124
We were going to book to fly to MCO on the 22nd before we booked the TPA flights about a year ago- glad we didn't now!
You might be less glad if the upshot is that the OP gets an upgrade to Club on the day!
