Originally Posted by jfhscott

Thank you.

Your information is helpful.

Actually, the earlier departing DCA-DEN-MCI routing would get me into MCI later than the later departing non-stop (given the limited facts listed above, I did not anticipate you would know that).

Given the load my office is providing (60% of the flight, and professional disaster for anyone who arrives late), I anticipate (1) overbooking (2) no one in my office can, from a professional standpoint arrive on the next flight, and doubly from a professional standpoint be seen by 60 colleagues accepting VOLUNTARY denied boarding compensation, and then arriving late in MCI. I think Frontier may need to resort to involuntary denied boarding.

I'm Summit, and have a seat assignment, so I do not anticipate trouble for me.

The one way government fare which most of have booked is $96, which seems to be one of the lowest fares in the DCA-MCI market. With the DOT compensation for involuntary denied boarding pegged to fare, will the fact that many of my nonstatused-colleagues have booked perhaps the lowest fares on the plane make them more likely candidates for involuntary bumping?

What is TRULY ironic here, is that, according to specifically defined regulations, if compensation is for voluntary bumping a federal employee may accept it for personal purposes, although such an employee is personally responsible for any on duty time lost on account of accepting it (I've accepted on a Friday redeye on UA, but the time lost on Saturday was already "mine"). BUT, if the denied boarding is INVOLUNTARY, the compensation is considered liquidated damages for the "breach" of the contract of carriage between the government and the carrier, and as such the compensatino goes to the government.

I know, no one asked me for a civics lesson.