<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by cordelli:
There is a difference between the next available flight (which is not what they are booking you on) and the next flight with availability (which is what they are booking you on.
Yes, you can get serial bumps, but those flights were still showing availability when they booked you. They will not normally book you on a flight that does not have availability (remembering that they oversell a considerable amount of seats).
I've been bumped and told that the next flight they could get me on was three or four flights later.</font>
Actually they were booking on flights that had no availiblilty. Because the entire weekend was full, part of the agreement I made at the time of bumping was to name my next flight.
They were placing me on the waiting list of full flights with the hope that not enough people would show up. They placed me on flights that were oversold by 20 people or more.
Granted, my situation was unique as it was an incredibly oversold weekend and I was in Florida trying to get to the only major hub it was flying through (Atlanta).