Originally Posted by
moreofless
Has anyone checked to see if they could have put these passengers on a later flight (an hour or two later) on another airline even if it was a connecting flight? The luggage of the seated passengers was already on the plane. All they had to do was get the people to the right place.
Every single flight to SDF was booked full / oversold. First available flight was Monday afternoon. I checked yesterday, and every single UA flight into SDF didn't take standbys, which tells me that they were either completely full or took volunteers.