Tuesday, January 13, 2004

By the Numbers

50: Number of people by which Friday's flight was overbooked.
115: Minimum number of people who held valid tickets on previously cancelled flights who were placed on stand-by for Friday's flight
165: Sum of previous two statistics; maximum number of people who held valid tickets but not boarding passes for Friday's flight
15: Maximum number of those people who were eventually given boarding passes
80: Minimum number of additional ticketed passengers necessary for Hawaiian Airlines corporate office to send a second plane
2: Minimum number of people arrested for assaulting Hawaiian Airlines representatives
2: Hours by which the closing of the gate was delayed by long lines to check-in

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