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Old Dec 23, 2019, 11:53 am
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navydevildoc
 
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Originally Posted by flytoeat
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
Maybe a better way to say it is they don’t aggressively oversell? In the VX days it was VERY common to have people bumped.

So we can agree they oversell, but they have the algorithm tuned to rarely effect passengers?

Plus, Happy Holidays!
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