Sentence examples for have overbooked from inspiring English sources

Carriers need to "take a look at their policies or procedures with regard to overbooking and how much they're going to offer passengers when they have overbooked". "It doesn't need to be an adversarial relationship between the passengers and the airlines," he said.

Shareholders wanted to know how the company could have overbooked 4.5 billion barrels of oil and gas reserves and also when company officials first knew about it.

Douglas Kidd, executive director of the National Association of Airline Passengers, said that much of the blame for the problems lies with Congress, which wrote too broad a law, and air carriers that have overbooked flights, reduced legroom and poorly treated animals that fly in the cargo bay.

He had reserved a subcompact car online, but Avis had overbooked his model, so he was given a Mustang convertible.

"They had overbooked the flight and I was not going to get on," said Mrs. Sumlin, who was left behind with another passenger when no one volunteered to give up a seat in exchange for flight vouchers.

Earlier this year, the oil giant admitted it had overbooked proven reserves in its oil fields by 4.5bn barrels, around 23% of its total, wiping billions of pounds off its market value.

We arrived early for our flight from London to Annecy, but at the boarding gate three of us were told easyJet had overbooked the plane and two would have to stay behind.

I paid £60 for a replacement for the five of us and we arrived at the airport just before the check-in desk was due to close – only to be told that easyJet had overbooked the flight and two of us had to stay behind.

Scenario #2: An airline has overbooked and asks you to fly on a subsequent flight.

For domestic U.S. flights, airlines are only responsible when they've overbooked your flight and have to "bump" you.

Airline staff, at the time of the incident, said that they had overbooked the flight and needed the seat for their employees.