Originally Posted by
navydevildoc
They have to put that on there for the exact reason this thread exists. Sometimes there may not be enough seats to passengers due to an equipment swap or some other issue.
But as a general rule AS does not typically oversell. I can only think of a single time a GA had to make the announcement asking for volunteers to be bumped.
OK, in the spirit of the holidays, let's just agree to disagree. But my information comes directly from AS revenue management personnel, and AS has oversell algorithms for every flight. It's a core component of RM.
Here are the latest available stats:
https://www.transportation.gov/sites...-2019-atcr.pdf