Originally Posted by SkaterJasp

I have no idea where you get your stats from, but jetBlue actually have the LEAST involuntary denied boardings of any major carriers. As of November 2006, the stats were:

jetBlue: .07 per 10,000 were involuntarily bumped which came in first for the least number of passengers bumped involuntarily.

Hawaiian came in at .09 per 10,000
AirTran came in at .10 per 10,000
Frontier came in at .45 per 10,000
finally United comes in at .49 per 10,000

So between January of 2006 and September of 2006, even though United still comes in below the national average of 1.04 per 10,000 passengers involuntarily bumped off a flight, their numbers is still OVER FIVE TIMES MORE than jetBlue per 10,000 passengers. Basically if you fly United, you are more than 5 times more likely to be bumped than if you flew jetBlue. The point of my post was that jetBlue actually does not intentionally overbook flights whereas theres no policy at United that says it does not intentionally overbook flights. And of course this topic has been debated over and over in the past here in this forum. So in order to use UA as a benchmark, jetBlue will have to abandon all that make it great and lower itself to United's standards.

Source: Department of Transportation
It ranked the nations 18 major carriers.