Originally Posted by dickinson

One other thing. OP got profuse apologies, cocktail certificates, got to sit together in coach, got $400 in flight coupons, to sit in coach on a one hour flight. The reason was that DL had to give the seats to FAM's under federal law. Also, under federal law, they couldn't tell the OP the reason. Presumably this downgrade had no effect on their connecting flight from ATL.
The tone and tenor of several posts, uncluding #41 is that they were somehow totally screwed over by DL. If they can get more compensation, great, but I don't see at all that they were mistreated in any manner by DL.