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Often unbeknown to travelers, airlines overbook flights on a regular basis.

@United overbook #flight3411 and decided to force random passengers off the plane.

They said it was our problem and they overbook the flights all the time so we have to accept it.

To further improve your chances: travel alone; travel light and be flexible (airlines often overbook flights, then offer vouchers to passengers willing to take another flight).

However, sometimes an airline will overbook a flight, and government travelers, through no fault of their own, are involuntarily bumped from the plane.

No airlines, should overbook. No airlines should bump off connecting passengers!

Jack Doran, 28, and 26-year-old Catherine Ward said their treatment was a "disgrace" and claimed the airline told them it was its policy to overbook flights by 10% under EU regulations.

She told us that the airline is allowed to overbook by 10 per cent and we were at the counter last minute.

"Determine your consistent slow periods, and overbook one to two patients per half-day." This effort will definitely be worth the trouble.

A Gulf Air spokeswoman said: "It is standard practice to overbook flights.

The basic question asked under the overbooking problem is: "Given a distribution of no-shows, how many rooms does a hotel need to overbook in order to maximize the expected profits or minimize the expected loss?" Such an optimal overbooking policy may be applied in the short term or the long term.

The latter costs airlines around the world billions of dollars, Shafie says, and in order to offset the loss, airlines overbook. "Gulf Air is adopting the latest technology through revenue/yield management and through overbooking formulas to address and avoid seat wastage and improve our seat utilisation throughout the network."