Originally Posted by
ijgordon
Just out of curiosity - is the compensation the same whether BA downgrades the passenger to Premium Economy or a double-downgrade to regular Economy? Or do you get 150% of the fare back?

It's the same regardless of which lower cabin you're downgraded to. BA arguably thus has an incentive to downgrade to Economy! Of course Economy may also be busy and it's hardly great customer service to be downgrading 2 classes due to overbooking.