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64. That's a different issue. Fact is...each airline has its bumping rules.

Passengers agree to those rules, when they book.

If you don't want to be bumped, check in before most others. Problem solved.

Whether there should be overbooking in the first place is a different issue.

This happens multiple times every day w/o incident. There are thousands of flights every day. Very few bump passengers, but because there are so many flights, it happens multiple times daily. If any passenger had volunteered to be bumped, no incident. If the one being bumped had accepted a later flight, no incident.

This is just a fact of flying in the modern world. One can not like it, but it's the way it is. The difference is how people handle it.

You can sue later in small claims court to get the costs incurred back, or other damages. One thing you DON'T do is scream like a little kid and intentionally make a scene. Because the reason for doing that is to make a scene, not to resolve the situation.

That's just the way I see it. People who travel a lot know this is the deal. Traveling is a pain, is uncomfortable, involves delays, rude and smelly people sometimes, sitting next to blowhards, rule stewards, late flights, cancelled flights, being bumped..anything and everything you can imagine. That's the deal. I used to travel for work. Hated it. But it does no good grumbling and acting badly about everything that goes wrong. It just makes things worse.

Passengers having to sit on an airplane for hours on the runway without restroom privileges? That's real abuse, and I think has been disallowed under law, now. Being bumped because of overbooking? Meh. That's a normal part of flying.