Originally Posted by
Calboy2003
I booked an award ticket lax-sea-yvr on AS using DL miles. When I arrived in SEA, the SEA-YVR was oversold and I agreed to give up my seat for a voucher and rebooking on Air Canada flight. The air Canada flight was the next flight out and the next AS flight was cutting way to close to make my cruise departure (landing at 2:51 and last aboard at 4pm). AS calls AC and AC agrees that we can put on fight. AS sends us to AC desk with no flight coupons or documentation. We get to AC flight and we are denied boarding due to wait and balance and sent back to AS. Doesn't AC owe IDB comp since they denied boarding on a reservation they could find in their system? I was put on AS flight and forced to take a taxi instead of my missed transfers and incurred a $45 taxi bill. AS can see the AC flight was "sold into the record" but can't not provide a ticket number of confirmation number for the AC flight so I can claim IDB comp. As I out of luck? How due I prove to AC that they IDBed me?
If it's for weight and balance on a small plane, not so much.
http://cfr.regstoday.com/14cfr250.aspx#14_CFR_250p5
" passenger denied boarding involuntarily from an oversold flight shall not be eligible for denied boarding compensation if: ...
The flight for which the passenger holds confirmed reserved space is unable to accommodate that passenger because of substitution of equipment of lesser capacity when required by operational or safety reasons; or, on an aircraft with a designed passenger capacity of 60 or fewer seats, the flight for which the passenger holds confirmed reserved space is unable to accommodate that passenger due to weight/balance restrictions when required by operational or safety reasons; "
AC flies Dash-8s that seat 50, so yes, weight and balance lets them deny boarding.
You decided to play the VDB lotto with your travel plans. I assume AS's comp was more than $45, right? Seems like you're still a net winner if that's the case.