<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Braindrain:
On one of the YVR-HKG flights I was on, there were severely overbooked in J and were asking J pax to voluntarily downgrade to Y and they would refund the "difference".
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Oh boy, I do not like the sound of that offer at all. Just like you were asking, how would they do this "difference" calculation?