Originally Posted by
STS-134
No, that's a floor, not a cap. If you are denied boarding and arrive at your destination more than 4 hours after you were originally scheduled to, the airline owes you at least 4 times the fare paid, up to a maximum of $1350. In other words, the floor has a cap. Even if you paid $1000 for your fare, the airline still owes you at least $1350, since 4 times the fare exceeds $1350. However they can, at least under the current rules, be glad they don't owe you at least $4000. They are, of course, allowed to pay you more, but they generally don't.
No, this is entirely wrong. The $1,350 is a cap. If your one-way domestic airfare is $1,000, and you are IDB'd, the airline is cutting you a check for $1,350.
It works like this:
Take the one-way airfare. Multiply it by 4. Is that more than $1,350? Passenger gets $1,350. Less? Passenger gets computed amount.
Originally Posted by
GrayAnderson
False dichotomy. I think what most of us want is for the airline to have their "stuff" together enough to have "must-rides" worked out in advance, even if it means slinging more pax onto standby-type tickets and/or holding some confirmations until boarding time. Yes, this might mean having to have more crew around (or other arrangements in place to move them in a pinch)...but over-rationalization is the problem here.
And of course the airlines try really hard to have their stuff together. But they are not omniscient, and sometimes mechanicals or weather happen that the airline can't anticipate.
You want airlines able to boot passengers for crew. It's better for passengers at large.
Another false dichotomy. I think JetBlue has a no-overbooking policy, and there are other options for the airlines to pursue. I think many of us would also not mind too horribly if ticket prices went up by a few percent across the board in exchange for IDBs being, at a minimum, vanishingly rare.
Good news, mission accomplished! IDBs (on United) only occur once every 25,000 flights. It will almost certainly never happen to you.