The police asks a passenger to leave as Wizz Air sells to many tickets for their flight to Barcelona

A passenger had to leave the Budapest to Barcelona flight of Wizz Air on Thursday, reports Azonnali, whose colleague boarded the same plane that night.

The airline also called the police in order to make someone leave the plane, although

it was certainly them, who sold too many tickets.

The airline also called the fellow traveler of the colleague of Azonnali to the check-in desk for reconciliation and told him it will only turn out at the passport control, if he can board the flight; luckily, he could in the end. However, this was not the end of the story: the staff asked the passengers whether someone would voluntarily leave the plane for re-routing, in exchange for a 250 € compensation fee. A woman accepted the offer eventually and got off the plane amidst the other passengers’ applause.

Although it is a common phenomenon among airlines to sell more tickets than vacant seats on a plane, calculating with people canceling their flights, the case is still interesting, because

Wizz Air was fined by the government agency of Budapest due to this practice at the end of September.

Azonnali asked the airline to what ratio and to which flights they apply this method, and how they choose who has leave the plane if no one volunteers to do so and why is it necessary to call the police for all of this.