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The writer and her family were recently kicked off a Scoot flight because the airline had sold too many tickets.

The writer and her family were recently kicked off a Scoot flight because the airline had sold too many tickets.

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One imagines that buckling your seat belt on the plane marks the start of a holiday.

Last month, I learnt how wrong this assumption was, when my parents and I were kicked off a red-eye flight on budget carrier Scoot because the local airline had sold too many tickets. 

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