FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Empty seats anger stranded BA flyers
View Single Post
Old Aug 15, 2005 | 3:02 am
  #16  
Globaliser
FlyerTalk Evangelist
All eyes on you!
20 Years on Site
 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: London
Programs: Mucci. Nothing else matters.
Posts: 38,752
Originally Posted by stl8r
"Some flights" with empty seats could cover a wide range starting at a small number and I would subscribe to the operational logistics theory of last minute no-shows etc.
Me too. Even in a disrupted situation, I can't imagine that BA or any airline would manage to get every seat filled on every flight on every route on which there were still stranded pax. When no-show rates are as high as they are in any event, you can't do that unless you have mounds of pax hanging around gate desks on standby until -10 mins - which causes its own problems.
Globaliser is offline