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Old Jan 5, 2012 | 8:37 pm
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Originally Posted by joel67
I have always assumed that airlines would not deliberately oversell the premium cabins, for obvious reasons, but just saw some evidence to suggest otherwise.

It's not that they won't oversell any premium cabin its that they won't for the highest cabin on the plane. In the case of a 3-cabin aircraft they won't oversell First but will oversell Business and bump people from Business up to first.
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