I have an upcoming flight on an E190, DCA-MCI (Monday 10:30 a.m. departure). Approximately 60 colleagues will be on that flight, all on fully refundable government fares. All of these colleagues are essentially required to be on the flight, as the optics of arriving on the afternoon flight, and arriving late are quite bad. I predict that Frontier's yield management algorithms have no idea of the circumstances of 60% of the passengers, and there will be a very significant oversell.

A couple of questions:

(1) What sort of voluntarily denied boarding compensation does F9 typically offer?

(2) I (and colleagues similarly situated) absolutely cannot be seen at the gate taking voluntarily denied boarding compensation, and taking the later flight, which arrives after important events start (it is legal, but in the circumstances, professionally very ill advised) - and there is no way I will do it. If I "volunteer" for an EARLIER (8:50 a.m.) DCA-DEN-MCI routing, I can get in on time - does Frontier ever offer compensation when an oversell is plainly obvious, even if the oversold flight is a couple hours in the future?

I'd appreciate hearing about experineces.