Word: overbooking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...charged $20 for house calls and would not accept Medicaid, and lacking nearby public transportation to the Cambridge Hospital. They were angry that it often took all day for elderly people to travel to the hospital to get their blood pressure checked and that the hospital would often overbook its schedule, forcing people to come back the next...
...capacity-with strangers bedding down with strangers or sleeping on couches in the lobby and in booths in the restaurant-when storms or fog grounds planes. Says General Manager Lynn Montjoy: "I'm the nasty man who prays for bad weather." Though they deny it, managers often overbook by about 10%. Admits Paul Sheeline, chairman of the Inter-Continental chain: "Hotels overbook a little, like the airlines, because some people do not show...
Ralph Nader's "victory" [June 21] is not a victory for the rest of the flying public, who will eventually pay the $50,061 because the consumer always eventually pays for everything. The ruling does not go to the root of the problem. Airlines overbook because of no-shows, and no-shows occur because the practice is not penalized...
Captive Passengers. The airlines are invariably jampacked. Experienced travelers learn never to count on a reservation. Clerks regularly overbook, schedules are meaningless, and aircraft often inexplicably sit on the tarmac hours after departure time-not that that is so unusual in the U.S. these days. Once in the air, passengers can never be sure where they are going to land, especially in winter. The airlines fly regardless of the weather at their destination and frequently have to detour to other cities in order to land. One recent Bulgarian Balkan Airlines flight, destined for Vienna, set down in Budapest. The pilot...