[The_Judge]

No......it it isn't valid. And that was the point of my post. I understand you may not know the difference between the 2 but when you go on a message board and start throwing around blame, then you'd better know the difference. I HIGHLY doubt the flight was OVERSOLD my 60.

I am guessing here, but it is an educated guess from 20+ plus years experience but you heard the word oversold used in an announcement, you saw alot of people milling around and overheard people saying they didn't have a seat yet and assumed they were all booked for this flight. You also then inflated the number as that is human nature, to imbelish a bit. Not faulting you, it's just what people do.

I also just wanted to touch on something you mentioned about the gate computer display. You said it "displays a list of people who do not have seats as standby."
WRONG. It displays a list of people in the classification they are in.

CONF=confirmed passenger without a seat.....top of the list
MISH=mishandled passenger from another flight with priority over regular standbys
STBY=standby from another flight. The "Y" may be varied depending on priority.
NREV=airline staff.......the very bottom of the barrel.

Probably more I forgot....it's been almost a year since I've been behind a counter.