Overbooking Flights$$Historically$,$ the probability that a passenger will miss a flight is $0\mathrm{.}0995.$ Source: Passenger$-$Based Predictive Modeling of Airline No$-$show Rates by Richard D$.$ Lawrence, Se June Hong, and Jacques Cherrier. Airlines do not like flights with empty seats, but it is also not desirable to have overbooked flights because passengers must be $$bumped$$ from the flight. The Lockheed L$49$ Constellation has a seating capacity of $54$ passengers.