Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Offer DL eCredits to anyone willing to postpone travel by a week or two. Make the offer to everyone, not just those with cancelled/delayed flights.
A bunch of people would be willing to do a VDB in advance (either days ahead or before going to the airport) for $100-200 or 10,000-25,000 RDMs.
With advance VDB in these situations, DL has no idea how many people will actually show up for a flight given last minute voluntary changes and IRROPs. Devoting resources to figuring out which flights are most at risk is probably not as helpful as devoting those resources to rebooking flights and just dealing with oversold flights as (and if) they come and offering a very lenient waiver that allows and encourages customers to postpone travel.