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Old Nov 21, 2011 | 2:59 am
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Originally Posted by Houminer
I was flying FLR-FCO-TLV I knew that the FLR- FCO segment might be overbooked.
At check in the agent told me that thet have overbooking and "would you like to fly with lufthansa via frankfurt, arrive in TLV 1 hour later and recive 175 euro?"

Of course I was very happy to fly LH instead AZ and recive 175 euro.
Then she said "the 175 euro will be in a travel voucher..."
I hope not to fly AZ again in the near future so asked how much cash are they offering, they offerd none. So I flew AZ...

Is this common practice in AZ?
It's a voluntary bump, so if they find someone who accepts for that sum in a TCV, why shouldn't they bump him instead of you? It's just good business sense :-)
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