04-02-2016, 07:39 AM
The reason airlines offer those free flight coupons for people who give up their seat is because they are ahead of that cancellation game and overbook to compensate. They give the coupons away when people actually show up.
Airlines are notoriously secretive with their flight information. They probably only give it up when forced to by the authorities so the chances of getting it are probably slim to none.
When the hero Fenton Bresler went to United Airlines to find critical flight information that showed Mark David Chapman had a weird flight history that had an unexplained 3 day layover and impossible ticketing he was told United routinely destroyed that record after one year. This was the simple flight record data of the man who had murdered John Lennon. United and the New York City District Attorney thought it wasn't worth the simple effort to save.
Oh yes, we can trust the religious purity of the invisible hand of the market. And corporations can be trusted to do the right thing.
Airlines are notoriously secretive with their flight information. They probably only give it up when forced to by the authorities so the chances of getting it are probably slim to none.
When the hero Fenton Bresler went to United Airlines to find critical flight information that showed Mark David Chapman had a weird flight history that had an unexplained 3 day layover and impossible ticketing he was told United routinely destroyed that record after one year. This was the simple flight record data of the man who had murdered John Lennon. United and the New York City District Attorney thought it wasn't worth the simple effort to save.
Oh yes, we can trust the religious purity of the invisible hand of the market. And corporations can be trusted to do the right thing.