I actually volunteered my paid business class seat on an oversold FCO-CLT. The agent refused because my seat was in business and it was not oversold in business, just Y, and that it has to be an economy passenger to volunteer. That is "standard procedure," which has not been my experience. Has anyone been in that situation before? I didn't even ask what the compensation would be. In fact, there are seats for the same flight in J the next day so not sure why they wouldn't do it. Maybe it's an FCO station issue?
Anyone wanna check and see if my flight actually took volunteers or not if they have access? This is the one time I actually had flexibility to volunteer!