In Reply to: Overbooked flights posted by Denise_Perth on Friday, 24. August 2007 at 12:33 Bali Time:
to overbook their flights. We were on an overbooked flight to India on Qantas one year and had to wait for seats to become available. I am assuming they did this by offering other passengers other flights.
I think though that the overbooking that has been occurring recently on the Garuda flights is because of people being shuffled from cancelled or delayed flights. They put it out there to see if anyone will willingly change flights and those that agree are compensated. Like I said, its common practice and definitely not confined to Garuda.