Originally Posted by Dave Noble

Basically what I was going to post. In the 3rd world overselling to the level to need to deny boarding seems to be much higher than in Oz. Ime, cases where flights have been overbooked to a level where denial of boarding occurs seems to be when there is an unexpected problem. e.g. another flight getting cancelled or an international flight where there are a lot of connecting passengers arriving late/wrong airport and having to be fitted into other services.

If it was a major issue, Im sure that the Consumer's association would have been sniffing around

Dave