Comment Re: YES (Score 1) 313
When traveling for work it's pretty routine for me to change either my outbound or return flight or both *after I've already checked in*.
Schedules change- "The test is running ahead of schedule - we need you there tomorrow morning instead of three days from now" or "something broke, you're not needed til next week" as I'm about to head to the airport. The same thing happens on returns - I might slip my return day-for-day as some part of a test gets delayed or runs long. It's perfectly reasonable to me that they're overbooking to compensate for such behavior (I'm hardly close to the only one). Such behavior also gets compensated by me and similar people finishing work early and not waiting the extra day or whatever to fly home, but changing to get on the next flight that's easy to make and will leave/arrive at reasonable times.