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sendero

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30. It is an idiotic solution for a real problem....

Reply to Exilednight (Reply #16)

Fri May 22, 2015, 06:47 PM

May 2015

... what airlines SHOULD do is book every seat exactly. Don't show? Then you just paid for travel you did not take. Why should folks who are doing the right thing (buying a ticket and showing up) pay for the mistakes of the no-shows?

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