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interesting, around here we do it with numbered seats. if you give each seat a specific number turns out you can match that with numbered tickets. somehow airlines don't make tickets with numbers that don't match with any seats. insane tech.
How magnificently naive if you think that's how it happens nowadays...
way to miss the point. literally everyone knows that they overbook. that's not because they're not using nfts. it's because they want to overbook. you said nfts would prevent overbooking. I say you can just prevent overbooking by not overbooking. it has nothing to do with nfts.
actually having to pay off extra passengers can get expensive, up to 10k per seat, so even one willing passenger without a seat is a loss, but they accept that possibility based on a curve over time of profit across all flights calculated on historical outcomes. Some flights will be overbooked and they accept that as the cost of making sure that other flights are more filled
The reason they overbook is that there is no human way to seamlessly transfer ticket ownership between pass holders down to the moment of boarding, across all venues and services where the tickets are sold.
NFTs add a platform that is universal, secure, and publicly accessible. No other database offers that
if you want to do it you can do it without nfts. clearly the airlines don't deem it worth the effort. there's no reason why you can't make a system that easily transfers ownership. this is trying to find a problem for a solution.
And you can ride your horse to work and post him up right outside your office
terrible analogy, but one can only hope. we don't need the bullshit that comes with everyone using cars.
NFTs would prove to the customers that their flight is not being overbooked.
but why would they want to do that if the intention is to overbook
It's a bit chicken and egg. One of the reasons airlines overbook is because there is no efficient secondary market.
But overbooking is seen as a profit center (I.e. consumers lose out) so only low cost airlines looking to provide consumer value would have any interest in NFT tickets.