These American Airlines Received the Most Passengers in 2019.
Booked flights are back baby! In the spring of 2017, after a man was pulled off a United flight that had more bookings and the United CEO blamed the man , airlines dramatically improved sales, selling only the number of seats they had on the plane. By mid-2018, the number of “injured” passengers was six times less than before the incident. But growth rates have tripled again , according to travel site UpgradedPoints.com.
In March of this year, after two accidents that killed hundreds of passengers and crew, the United States finally joined the rest of the world and landed all Boeing 737 Max-8 and Max-9 aircraft. Just before the White House forced them to stop, Southwest and American told Gizmodo they plan to continue flying these planes, which is cool, and Boeing has orders for more planes.
With fewer planes to move, airlines have started reserving more flights again. What do you want them to do, make money only when they really have a place to offer you? Maybe you should have thought about that before making them stop flying into Boeing’s death trap!
According to UpgradedPoints, in 2018 the airlines most likely to book more tickets and kick you off your flight were Frontier and Spirit, followed by Alaska, PSA and American. But in 2019, Frontier, Spirit, and Alaska have improved. After the Boeing Maxes was stopped, the Americans and Southwest Airlines booked more passengers.
Thus, as of mid-2019, the airlines most likely to unwittingly kick you off your flight are Mesa (which operates like American Eagle and United Express ), PSA (also American Eagle), Allegiant, and American .
The good news is that you are still statistically unlikely to be among the injured passengers. Even on Mesa, only 0.01162% of all passengers unwittingly collide with obstacles. (Voluntary strikes are not included in these statistics.) This probably won’t happen to you.
The bad news, as my colleague Beth Skorecki put it, is this: “It must be zero! In what other market do people pay for things and then give them up at the last minute? “
It’s up to you to decide whether overbooking is a necessary evil for an industry that seems incapable of consistently generating profits, or just another immoral choice of an industry that is killing the planet . But your safest bet to avoid hitting, UpgradedPoints says, is Delta.