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Design a Flight Booking System — seat inventory and concurrent reservation across dates.

The seat-inventory-and-concurrent-reservation problem: how seat availability is queried efficiently across many flights and dates, how two users racing to book the last seat on a flight are handled correctly, and how the booking and payment complete as one consistent operation.

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Design a Flight Booking System — seat inventory and concurrent reservation across dates.

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