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Old Apr 14, 2017 | 6:45 pm
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Originally Posted by JBord
Technically no, but the IDB threshold becomes the VDB limit, in practice.
Calling the IDB threshold a "cap" or a "limit" is very misleading. Lets be clear. All airlines are free to offer any compensation they see fit over and above that limit. The "cap" is the limit of Mandatory compensation they MUST pay. It isn't a limit to what they MAY pay.

Now in practice, the cheap airlines have assumed that if they don't pay a cent more than that cap, then they'll never get in trouble. They assumed wrong.
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