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Old Aug 11, 2016 | 5:44 pm
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Originally Posted by deltadiamondflyer
After my JFK-FLL flight was delayed on 8 Aug for 3.5 hours, I got $250 voucher and 20,000 SkyMiles. Do you think this is fair?
IMO, yes. At the 1 cent per mile pay with miles valuation, that's $450 - or $125/hr. As a salary, that would be $260,000 a year, which seems quite generous. Or, looking at it differently, I'd usually cheerfully take a $400 voucher for a VDB that resulted in a 4 hour delay.

I don't know that this amount would be sufficient for me if I was delayed overnight and DL failed to provide hotel accommodations, for example. But for an average domestic delay of this length, I think it's pretty reasonable compensation.
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