Nope, just fly a lot and have seen so many people have issues, many of which can be avoided. As far as overbooking, nobody likes to be bumped. The easiest solution to avoid revenue loss for the airline, and ensure nobody gets bumped, is to make all tickets non-refundable, no re-booking, just show up and fly or lose it. Of course that is not going to be liked by most of the public. So other than overbooking I'm not sure how you avoid planes leaving with open seats and the associated revenue loss. Unfortunatly many of the problems are caused by people showing up to the gate late. Lots of reasons including traffic, long lines at the checkpoints due to our ever efficient TSA helpers and a variety of others. The only way to make sure is to get their plenty early, then there can be no question about compensation if there are delays, cancels, or overbooked flights. Don't show up on time, and all bets are off.
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