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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: MechAg94 on July 02, 2022, 07:58:07 PM
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https://www.dailywire.com/news/delta-passengers-offered-10000-each-to-exit-overbooked-flight-report?utm_campaign=dw_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=housefile&utm_content=member
Inc. magazine technology columnist Jason Aten shared with followers that he was seated on a flight from Grand Rapids to Minneapolis when a crew member announced that the flight was “apparently oversold” and that Delta was looking for eight passengers to forfeit their seats for $10,000 each, New York Post reported.
In April 2017, Delta sent employees an internal memo giving them authority to offer compensation of up to $9,950 to travelers who agreed to give up their seats on overbooked flights, the Post reported.
If this was cash/check and not just some sort of credit, I could do some driving or wait a day for $10K. Usually when I have heard about this it was just credit.
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They said it was cash.
The most I've seen is about $2000.
Back when the cops dragged that guy off the united flight after nobody would take the credit, united stock dropped a few hundred million dollars for a while and a bunch of people swore off United. I said that they should have just started an auction because it would have been cheaper than calling the cops event if they had to pay a huge amount before anyone took it. Maybe Delta are smart enough to make the same analysis.
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I bet it's travel vouchers, with a short enough expiration and enough restrictions that they are almost impossible to use.
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Even if it were short term and for just "goodies" instead of cash, I wonder if it would be possible to "scalp" the vouchers at the ticket lines. (One would hope they were transferable.)
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I recall reading that passengers were entitled to cash instead of a voucher if requested.
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If cash, I ought to go book a flight and "volunteer" to be bumped. I need a new band saw and milling machine.
Woody
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I recall reading that passengers were entitled to cash instead of a voucher if requested.
Didn't they actually start that after the United thing zahc mentioned? Seems to ring a bell.
When I traveled a lot for work, I would often get in the volunteer queue for getting bumped, though I was rarely chosen. Depending on what they offered. My minimum was a voucher for CONUS travel. I had a girlfriend in DC for a few years, so it was worthwhile for visits outside of the few times a year I was flying to DC anyway for work. I one time got lucky enough for an "anywhere in the US including AK and HI" voucher.
There were times they couldn't have got me to do a volunteer bump for anything, usually after some exhausting TDY work thing where all I wanted to do was get home and hit the rack for a full day. Otherwise I was always open to it.