Right, back to reason why I came back to this thread.
I'm sure it has been asked before, but I've never seen a technical answer.
Given they still sell flights as low as €9, FR must get their fair share of no shows - surely at least 2-3 on each flight. Why then do they still stick to a no overbook policy? Could that not "slot in" 2 potentially higher yielding passengers, offset by the off-chance of 190 or more people showing up.
I've seen the rush forwards at JFK for the voluntary no shows, but in many of these cases, there'd be another departure within an hour or two. Is that the reason, or does it boil down to risk that if 190 did show up, they'd only know when pax 190 showed up at the gate at the back of the queue.
Yet another reason to enforce the requirement to be at the gate 20 mins before departure?