Originally Posted by
travel.flier
I guess I'm not understanding your point and I really want to because this stuff is fascinating to me. what is the res agent not seeing that inventory management knows? if capacity is 100 and it's booked to 101, doesn't that mean it's overbooked by 1? and if it's F0Y0, then nobody can purchase another ticket. I understand there are other ways to get overridden and overbook more if the president of the united states called and said i want a ticket on that flight, and plops down the cash, i'm guessing they'll sell a seat even though it's F0Y0. is that what you mean? or is there something else in the equation that i'm not comprehending?
You totally miss the big picture here. ORD-SFO has what 10 flights. One or more could have been canceled. There was a big storm in midwest recently, maybe they pulled down the seats to protect for that, there could have been equipment swaps on other flights that reduced capacity, this particular flight could have a very low no show rate since it connects to an international flight out of SFO, there could have been predicted weather on either end that folks will try to switch to your flight etc etc etc the list goes on.