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What are your favorite travel myths?

What are your favorite travel myths?

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Aug 27, 2015, 7:56 pm

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Originally Posted by sethb

Not necessarily; the bumping rules generally don't say
that passengers without seat assignments lose out. Status and
ticket class/price are more important.

Passengers who listen to advice like that aren't likely to have
status or to have paid more than the rock-bottomest price
that they could find (probably not the rock-bottomest price
you could find).

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