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More Profit, Less Complaint ∼ Control number 490 More Profit, Less Complaint Xia Yunni Zhao changing Wei Li Advisor Yang Xiaofan Summary The present paper aims at providing the optimal overbooking strategy for the Chief-Executive-Officer (CEO) of an aviation corporation. In more detail, its aim is to determine the number of tickets which are overbooked to achieve the maximum possible economic profit while taking various (economic and social) factors into consideration. First of all, the mutual relationship among the elements such as profit, ticket-price, number of passengers, possibility of booking-and-arriving, and the maximum number of tickets which are permissible to reserve, is revealed. Based on this, three typical mathematical models are proposed, which are exposed one after another below. The first model, which is the simplest one, aims simply at maximizing the single-airliner profit rate for the single-price situation. Considering the number of passengers as a random variable, this model makes use of the average profit (i.e., mathematical expectation) as the measure of the profit rate. Based on this model, we discuss three typical strategies of how to pay the passengers who have booked a specific airliner but have to give up the right for taking that airliner due to the limited transportation capacity of the airplane, respectively. Alth