<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by pinniped:
Anyone have stats on VDB and IDB percentages? I'm going to guess that the airlines ARE very good at running their forecasting algorithms and send off 95+% of their flights without needed to VDB anyone and 99.9+% without needing to IDB anyone.
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Right on the money,
pinniped!
http://www.bts.gov/publications/nati...ble_01_58.html
Code:
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Boarded 420,696 429,190 445,271 449,184 457,286 460,277 480,555 502,960 514,170 523,081 543,344 498,304 467,205
Denied boardingb, total 628 646 764 683 824 843 957 1,071 1,136 1,070 1,120 942 837
Voluntary 561 599 718 632 771 794 899 1,018 1,091 1,024 1,062 899 803
Involuntary 67 47 46 51 53 49 58 54 45 46 57 43 34
Percent denied boarding 0.15% 0.15% 0.17% 0.15% 0.18% 0.18% 0.20% 0.21% 0.22% 0.20% 0.21% 0.19% 0.18%