The practice of confirming more seats on an aircraft or rooms in a hotel than actually are available Overbooking is designed to protect the airline or hotel from no-shows
Practice by a supplier of confirming reservations beyond capacity, either in expectation of cancellations, no-shows or in error
The practice of taking more bookings than there are seats on the carrier It is used to minimize the number of empty seats caused by No- shows
The practice of taking more reservations than there are seats, rooms, or space in the expectation that no shows (qv) will bring the number of reservations actually used below maximum occupancy
If an organization such as an airline or a theatre company overbooks, they sell more tickets than they have places for. Planes are crowded, airlines overbook, and departures are almost never on time. to sell more tickets for a theatre, plane etc than there are seats available