Originally Posted by
Lobengula
I'm thinking what I would do if it happened to me (4h delay). I would probably settle for €200 or maybe 20000 miles. A few hours more or less isn't that important if you can spare them but the OP mentioned business meetings.
This is why it's important to find passengers that will voluntary switch to a later flight. Not all passengers have meetings, and some hours delay is easily compensated with money/miles/vouchers.
I would be inclined to ask for a bit more than €200 if in travel voucher (but if in cash, €200 would be about right).
I'd like to relay a recent encounter with Air France. I was checking in for a flight and I was asked if I would consider potentially going on a later flight (just over 2 hours later). It may not be necessary, but they were looking for two volunteers to potentially be bumped off the flight if necessary, because they were overbooked. They were offering €150 in AF voucher which could also be exchanged for €75 cash, plus a breakfast voucher that could be used anywhere at the airport. They were offered unconditionally - valid whether you do eventually get bumped off or not. The flight was only CDG-LHR.
This seems to have been the standard deal they offered for this flight. So €200 for a compulsory offload (rather than voluntary) and 4+ hour delay seems a little too low, especially if that is in voucher rather than cash.