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Old Oct 6, 2015, 6:56 am
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Originally Posted by Often1
2. By my read, each of you were IDB twice. You had proper boarding passes and were at the gate ontime for each of two separate flights. The aircraft are all more than 30 seats and it appears that your delay exceeds the maximum.
The current version of the rule is 60 seats, FWIW.
https://www.transportation.gov/airco...ts#Overbooking
In addition, on flights using aircraft with 30 through 60 passenger seats, compensation is not required if you were bumped due to safety-related aircraft weight or balance constraints.
It is also unclear if the second set of BPs were departure management cards or actual BPs. If they were actual BPs then there was nothing stopping the OP from boarding with them as that would mean seats were assigned. But it sounds like they were standby as the OP was unable to board using them.
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