Airlines routinely overbook flights, selling more tickets than seats available. If too many ticketed passengers show up, they offer payments to volunteers who are willing to give up their seats. These take such forms as cash vouchers for future flights and upgrades to first class on the next flight out.

Why would you (probably) object if you learned that the airline had bribed a local politician to obtain airport gate space that would otherwise have been used by a competitor?

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