There have been repeated assertions that the VDB/IDB ratio somehow changes the on-time performance of the carrier. I'd love an explanation of how that happens. If they don't get the VDBs they still close the door and push the plane once it is boarded. They're not sitting around in the terminal playing games rather than closing the flight out if people don't respond to the solicitations.

It might be that more people are IDB'd because the offers are so low that no one will take them (I don't think that's the case but I'll accept it for this discussion). That doesn't change that NN people aren't getting on the plane anyways and the door has to close.

And if it not related then why bring it up in the discussion? Talk about derailing a cogent and reasonable discussion with off-topic rhetoric...