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Old Mar 20, 2019 | 4:15 am
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Originally Posted by gateH15

but they are willing to sell those seats and that will also increase VDB/IDB
Because presumably the revenue from selling those tickets at $1600 each far outweighs the cost risk they take of having to VDB passengers. In the case of OP, moving them onto the flight gets no incremental revenue, but still incurs additional cost of having to VDB.
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