Originally Posted by
Mauricio23
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By IDB'ing somebody, an airline expropriates (yes, expropriates) the value of a ticket to the passenger (minus the inadequate compensation). The only way to make this fair is by VDB'ing people at whatever compensation the market requires. Keep upping the offers. Too high? Stop overselling.
You do not go to a grocery store that sells for cheap but has a 1% chance of confiscating your goods at checkout, after you've paid, and giving you only 60% of what they were worth to you in the first place. Why would you accept that from an airline?
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Regardless of what the airlines and the industry call this, expropriating is exactly what they have done. IMO.
And now, as more reports are coming in of people with paid tickets (eg. F full fare) literally being told after already in their seats, that they need to get up and get out because someone else more important is getting that seat, this will only get worse unless a better solution is found.
NO ONE disagrees with the challenges airlines face when equipment goes mechanical and needs to be swapped out and the same size isn't always available. NO ONE should misunderstand the challenges of weather or GDPs on scheduling.
But if the airlines that use IDBs as a business strategy and don't make changes (before governments get in the way), there will be a Charlton Heston moment and it won't end much better than this week's episode.