Searched and (perhaps unsurprisingly) couldn't find a thread on this so am starting one for any VDB reports — I somehow managed to get my first-ever VDB (on B6 of all carriers, and with no equipment swap involved!) this Monday at JFK... Was booked on the 2.50pm JFK-BOS that was over by 4, and got a $700 voucher to take the 7.35pm — pretty good for a 4.5 hour delay I would say.

Also when I got bumped every remaining JFK-BOS for the day was sold out, but the supervisor who rebooked us mentioned that in these situations they'd just confirm us on the next flight and roll the oversale over. We did get asked if we were willing to fly the next day — with hotel rooms for those who aren't local to NY (no TWA though), and one of the other volunteers took him up on the offer. Another volunteer (who made the mistake of saying he was local) then offered to fly Tuesday for more $ — supervisor told him to name his price and he asked for another $700, but got told no can do, so I guess B6 does have their limits. The supervisor did tell him to just try volunteering again on the (now-oversold) 7.35pm flight, which he did, but sadly there were at least 2 no-shows that evening so he made it out.

I then decided to try my luck and offered to cancel my ticket and take Amtrak if they'd give me a $1000 voucher instead (there were seats on the Acela for ~$200 that evening) — the supervisor was actually open to it (I think being Mosaic might have helped there), but said he needed to get permission and went to make some calls, and I also got denied haha.

And for anyone who accepts a VDB at JFK just know the rebooking process takes forever — we spent 30 minutes at the CS desk waiting for new BPs and the travel credits to come through, since I guess it's something that doesn't really happen that often (and presumably because they had to oversell our new flights to get us on too, and who knows how that works with B6 IT ).