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Old 12th Jan 2008, 16:25
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Midland 331
 
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No-show rates vary per route, flight and day of the week. There's no set percentage.

Many, many times I've had to explain "the science of overbooking" to bumped passengers...

Extremes:- I once got one of the last seats on a Gatwick-Lagos (on a staff ticket) which had 350 sold for a 225-seat (IIRC - DC10) aircraft....

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