Originally Posted by
Ken Borough
Really? In a couple of airlines with which I am very familiar, positioning crew (to operate a flight or who are returning to base after an operation) are booked as "must go" status. The space is confirmed and pity help any ground staff who offload crew in those circumstances. The required number of seats are blocked with the saleable inventory reduced accordingly. It is therefore possible to still overbook a flight based on the reduced inventory.
I should have been clearer in what I was saying - what I meant was:
Unbooked and late-arriving company aircrew needing positioning flights don't qualify as confirmed, reserved seats
If the positioning flights are booked at a time when there are seats available then I have no problem with them being given the highest priority. But that's not what happened here.
PDR