Originally Posted by
planetlonely
In mostly airlines they do tie ups suppose if a plane is remaining 23 seats then the other airline can transfer the passengers on other vacant plane. Its really hard to estimate exact money loss in this regard for vacant plane. You are lucky you getting chances to fly in vacant plane.
Are you saying that if airline A and airline B have flights going XXX-YYY, and that the number of passengers combined is small enough to fit on one plane, airline B will put all its passengers on airline A's flight?
I've never heard of that before, and I'd consider it very unlikely. Often, aircraft need to go to the destination to work the next flight out. Also, why would an airline voluntarily move its customers over to a competitor? Sounds like bad PR.