Originally Posted by
STARAFlyingPenguins
Obviously UA would prefer to put me on their own flight, but I was wondering if anyone has experience with Interline after a VDB? (DL and AA both have open seats much earlier, connection UA-DL at some regional airports also has a whole bunch of earlier seats, but that is probably too complicated...).
About 6 years ago, I was returning to the US from Darwin, Australia via Sydney. When I was finally able to check in for my SYD-LAX flight, it was oversold and several of us volunteered to give up our seats, being told we'd be put on a flight 3 hours later. Seemed like a no-brainer to me. As it turned out, we waited for hours and hours, got taken outside passport control, back through passport control, and finally I got booked on Hawaiian Air to HNL then UA to LAX and finally back home. I got ORC plus a voucher for $800 that I used to upgrade the following year's trip.