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Old Apr 14, 2017 | 10:56 pm
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Originally Posted by drewguy
Interpretation 1: United is cheap
Interpretation 2: Delta overbooks to a greater degree, and has to pay more as a result.
At least anecdotally, this is also because Delta starts the bidding higher. One thing to think about is the ratio of VDBs to IDBs:
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/these...assengers.html

DL's ratio is 32:1, competing with VX for the highest ratio. United's is 9:1. Frontier is the worst (at about 3:1).

I'm wondering...perhaps rather than going after individual cases there should be some sort of fine if an airline's VDB:IDB ratio (or even just if their IDB rate) is too high? The idea that, for example, Expressjet and Skywest oversell by that much (nearly one in every 500 pax who show up being denied their seat) is boggling to the mind.
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