She even asked if they were really letting her sit in first class.
The chief flight attendant's answer was that this was the only empty seat on the entire plane.
Meng Xin Zhi had heard from Zong Ji before about being upgraded from economy to business class.
But there were always reasons for that, often due to airline overbooking.
To ensure occupancy rates, they might sell three hundred tickets even though there are only two hundred eighty seats available.
International flights are usually booked well in advance, and people tend to change their tickets for a variety of reasons.
In most cases, the actual number of passengers flying wouldn't even reach two hundred eighty.
That meant everyone who wanted to fly could get away.
On some popular flights, where no one rebooked or canceled, some passengers couldn't board the plane because of overbooking.
In such cases, airlines usually had two ways of dealing with it.