Sentence examples for overbooked from inspiring English sources

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Overbooked airports frequently lead to runway congestion, forcing travellers to spend long hours stranded on the tarmac while they wait to take off or disembark.

Internal flights too are overbooked at this season, when cooler weather attracts tourists, businessmen and visits home from India's vast diaspora.

They are often overbooked.

"Now everyone has left them there after telling them they might be stuck there for eight days because all the flights are overbooked".

When you are told that the flight is overbooked and you have no seat, remain calm.

(If this now counts as corporate behavior worthy of oversight and reform, the committee may soon find its schedule overbooked).

Over the years, there have been plenty of examples of Merle's rebellion against constraints, a number of them garden-variety no-shows: in Denver and Salt Lake City in 1976, because he thought he was overbooked; in Roseburg, Oregon, several years ago, because (according to newspaper reports) he and the second Leona were having difficulties; a pair of shows in Canada.

This summer, nearly a third of all flights have been arriving late, more flights have been cancelled, many planes are overbooked, and, in June, reports of baggage problems were up twenty-five per cent from last year.

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

The stadium officially seats thirty-two thousand, big big matches are typically overbooked by several thousand tickets.