Originally Posted by
FlyAO2
NO - Could not disagree more.
By the looks of it, the OP has no status.
No status + a full flight + no seat assignment = Spectacular Recipe for getting bumped off the flight.
+1.
My only two IDB's in my life have been DL, no status, no seat assignment.
They bump the people with no seats, period. They did not solicit VDB in any way that a gate-area passenger would have heard, nor did they offer at the kiosk. I checked in at T-24 on both occasions.
Check in,
get your seat assignments in-hand, prepare the kiddos with some reading material or other entertainment for the flight, and just get to your destination.
No seat assignments could mean a full day and night in New York. Which would be better than a full day and night in Atlanta and a room at the worst Holiday Inn in the history of human hospitality. (Just trying to provide a little silver lining for you...

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