新東方商務口語[13]:航班超額預定

Business Travel 商務旅行

6.航班超額預定

Clerk: Good evening, Mr. Lee and thank you for choosing our airline. We have just discovered that this flight is overbooked. Would you like to volunteer to give up your seat?
晚上好，Lee先生。歡迎乘坐本公司航班。我們發現航班已經超額預定。您能自願放棄自已的座位嗎？

Mr. Lee: Overbooked? Give up my seat? I don’t understand.
超額預定？放棄自已的座位？我不明白。

Clerk: From time to time we have a situation in which there are More passengers than there are seats on the aircraft. That’s overbooked.
有時我們會出現乘客比座位多的情況。這就是超額預定。

Mr. Lee: I know what overbooked is, I just don’t understand how that could happen?
我知道什麼是“超額預定”。我只是不明白怎麼會發生這樣的事。

Clerk: Actually it’s a common practice to overbook, as passengers often don’t take their flight as scheduled. Most of the time there is no problem but today, more passengers arrived than we have seats, so we really are overbooked.
其實超額預定是航空公司普遍的做法，因乘客並不一定按計劃乘坐航班。多數情況下不會出現問題，但是今天來的乘客比座位多，我們真的超額預定了。

Mr. Lee: So who has to stay behind?
那麼誰會走不了而留下呢？

Clerk: Well, first we ask for volunteers. If someone like yourself volunteers, they receive a free round trip ticket to be used within one year. If no one volunteers we just have to select someone.
我們先看看有沒有自願的。自願的人可以得到一張一年內有效的免費往返票。如果沒有人自願，我們只好指定了。

Mr. Lee: Ok. I’ll volunteer. I could use a free ticket!
那好，我自願放棄。我願意得到一張免費機票。