So a couple of questions, apologies if they are dumb. So are you saying that if you do OLCI when it opens, you are guaranteed to be on the flight? What if you do OLCI later, let's say in the taxi to the airport? Does that make you more likely to get bumped? Is there some magic cut off time and the airline bases their offload on last to check in first to be unloaded (which it seems was JohnK's experience)
I thought if the airline had passengers on standby, they would offer any unfilled seats to them, and how late in the boarding process are they offered? and I also thought if a flight is overbooked they would offer $$ for people to give up their seats for a later flight
Re the linked flights, perhaps o/s flights, if you used a travel agent, don't they have some system of linking the passengers so theres certainty you'll sit together.