If you read UA’s contract of carriage “oversold” is defined as when too many tickets are sold. Crew members are not paying ticket holders. The plane had the right number of paying passengers on board the plane. The plane was not overbooked (oversold is the proper term). The press is not exactly known for their enviable research skills these days. So they got it wrong because to them making a passenger give up his seat must mean the plane was overbooked.
“The press is not exactly known for their enviable research skills these days. So they got it wrong because to them making a passenger give up his seat must mean the plane was overbooked.”
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I don’t make the news, just repeat what they tell me. If they said it was “overbooked” that’s what I repeat like a parrot. Was not there when it happened, to be truthful you could not pay me to fly.