The flight was not “over booked”. United had sold all of the seats on that flight and then found out that they needed to get a flight crew to another airport to keep from delaying another plane. If they need to be able to move crews around like that, they should just leave a couple of seats unsold on each flight “just in case”, but they’re greedy, like the land agent who stood the acre up on end so he could sell both side of it.
The flight was not “over booked”. United had sold all of the seats on that flight and then found out that they needed to get a flight crew to another airport to keep from delaying another plane. If they need to be able to move crews around like that, they should just leave a couple of seats unsold on each flight “just in case”, but they’re greedy, like the land agent who stood the acre up on end so he could sell both side of it.