Originally Posted by
canadiancow
I think you're confusing "IDB" in the sense of compensation for overbooking, and being involuntarily denied boarding, which this definitely would be.
Well I may have misread the response you quoted. I read "
Otherwise, we go down the denied boarding route, we generate lots and lots of paperwork for everybody, and we get at least $600 of entertainment value out of the various responses." As saying they'd request IDB compensation afterwards, which I don't think would be possible