Originally Posted by
pinniped
Actually, I've seen well-thought-out proposals for how a seamless VDB auction would work for a few years now. App penetration is the game-changer that would enable this.
Well, their butts are already covered when it comes to IDB...as long as they don't kick people in the process. U.S. carriers can just chip off a small amount of money and the passenger really has no rights.
Agree with you on the VDB: in seems like in the incident, they just stopped the process at $800, which for an overnight delay ridiculously low unless someone *wants* to be in Chicago an extra night. Go to $1500, and I imagine somebody bites. But if they had this functionality in the app, they'd quickly get exactly to the right amount, and well *before* passengers boarded, thus getting the flight out of the gate much faster.
Exactly. I think that apart from some types of equipment downgrades, say above a threshold of seats lost, there should be no IDBs - ever. Pay the price to get the VDBs. There will almost always be a price that will get the VDBs. Any other system runs the risk of terribly inconveniencing passengers who trusted you to get them somewhere about on time.
Last edited by WineCountryUA; Apr 12, 2017 at 2:58 pm
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