On 15 Oct, 19:29, Roland Perry wrote:
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11:18:57 on Thu, 15 Oct 2009, MIG
remarked:

There seems to be no
incentive to volunteer being bumped on a budget airline though.

Budget airlines don't overbook to the same extent, because you don't
have the issue of fully-flexible tickets where you might not know a
particular passenger has decided to take the next flight until they
don't turn up.

They don't need to bump you. *They'll just claim that your passport is
bent or contrive to delay you in a way that they'll claim is your
fault, and you'll miss the flight without compensation plus pay the
full fare for the next one.

Chatter, chatter.

Anyone ever seen that happen?

Yes.

Loads of people. Are they all making it up?

Anyway, it's good businesss practice, so why would they miss such an
obvious opportunity? It would be remiss.