Originally Posted by
yyzgigi
Reading this, I wonder if I should have held out for more. However, I didn't really get a sense of urgency on the agent's part. Despite the degree of oversell, didn't seem like she was motivated to move us.
In any negotiation situation, it is important to adopt a "glass half full" attitude. From your point of view, you got a J seat, plus extra status miles when you only were expecting a Y seat with base mileage. I'd say you came out ok
Yes, you might have gotten a voucher in addition to all this if you had been IDB'ed, but it would have been awful if the agent said that the oversell had been taken care of while you were still holding your Y boarding pass.