Originally Posted by
djk7
It is a bit confusing, the booted pax was referred to as both "standby" and having "paid full fare for the last available seat". I see those as mutually exclusive, but if she truly was standby, then she wasn't IDBed. If she wasn't standby, then they should have asked for volunteers.
I'm going to guess that the fattie didn't make the flight in time and thus a standby passenger was allowed to fly. At this point the fattie shows up--they should have been denied at this point but they probably didn't want to strand a 14 year old. Hence they IDB the standby passenger instead.