Originally Posted by
Uzzar
At an outstation where the AA gate was right next to a DL gate, the DL agent was asking for volunteers. She started around $300 and made it to $800 before she announced volunteers were no longer needed. Meanwhile, the AA agent announced that she was going to bump someone if we had no volunteers at $150.
I've also seen DL go crazy high with VDB offers. I was sitting at the gate with a client who was on a DL flight (I was on AA later) and the flight was oversold - DL offers 300, 500, 750... finally at $1000, someone walks up and says yes. They are happy with $1000, the passengers in the gate area all are cheering and saying "thank you", GA is smiling... everyone seemed to walk away happy here.
DL also manages to make a lot more money than AA, so clearly this generosity isn't hurting their margins.