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Originally Posted by maradori
Originally Posted by
KenHamer
1. Have preprinted cards made (more in a moment.) Cards would have 2 blanks - Name: and Amount:.
2. When a Denied Boarding situation arises, make an announcement along the lines of:
"We are unable to accomodate 13¹ passengers on this flight. If you would be willing to take a later flight in exchange for compensation please take one of these cards. Fill in the card with your name and the amount of compensation you would like to receive, with a minumum of $200.
Once we have collected all of the cards we will select the 13 cards with the lowest amounts and rebook those passengers on a later flight. All passengers who are rebooked will receive the highest amount noted on any of the 13 selected cards, and in no case will receive less than $200.
Cards must be returned within FIVE MINUTES."
3. Collect the cards. (Number them in order of receipt in case of a tie for last place.)
4. Pick the the 13 cards with the lowest amounts, and send those people aside.
Sounds familiar. Isn't this auction-like system kinda related to what DL is doing?
http://www.gadling.com/2011/01/05/de...ping-into-eba/
Ah, you gave the game away.
Which is OK. But I wanted to do it.
Yes similar to what DL does, in that in oversell situations they ask you at checkin kiosks if you're interested and what you would like and how much - cash, vouchers, points and I think upgrades. (I've only done it once.). But you don't have to commit at this point.
But with AC anything more than pen and paper is likely too expensive. And if AC IT was involved then at first whiff of an oversell the computer would likely offload everyone then schedule the plane to India for scrap metal.