With airlines cutting flights by the thousands because of the high price and scarcity of aviation fuel , one inevitable consequence is that some aircraft will be flying fuller than ever before. Some airlines are “merging” flights, moving passengers from a cancelled one on to another which is operating. That phenomenon has sparked fears of an increase in cases of overbooking – when airlines sell more tickets than there are seats actually available on an aircraft. It has been a widespread practice among airlines including British Airways and easyJet for decades. These are the key questions about how overbooking could potentially affect you – positively as well as negatively. Two hundreds seats on the plane – you sell no more than 200 tickets, surely? No responsible company would sell more tickets than there are seats available, surely? Put like that it sounds a deplorable business practice. After all, theatres and sports venues don’t sell the same seat twice.…