Originally Posted by
rflor
I didn’t get this personally, but witnessed it and wanted to bring here for discussion.
On a flight from IAH-MCO when a plane change forced F to be oversold by 1. Gate Agent first offers $500 for one passenger to move to the 5PM flight (this is the 3PM flight…so only a couple hours, but MCO thunderstorms always makes it dicey). No one bites.
He then raises it to $800 for either an F seat on the 5PM or a downgrade to E- on our flight. I’m in E+ or else I would have gotten interested.
In this scenario, if I were to take the downgrade….could I claim both the $800 credit and downgrade compensation? Or is double-dipping not allowed here.
I believe you'd only get one or the other, though it was moot for you since you were in E+ and not F... honestly, for a 2.5h flight, I might bite at $800 to move to E- assuming I had upgraded to F. If I purchased, F outright, probably not.
I've offered $1k as my typical floor for oversales and have not had UA take me up this year... but I've also not seen them actually be oversold (just claimed they were at check-in), with pretty much every one of the flights departing having cleared a few standbys. My sole downgrade in the past year UA tossed me $250 (it was a CPU), which I had to push for; they originally claimed that I wasn't entitled to anything at all because "but you flew in F!" (I did not), then, "but it was a free upgrade anyway" (downgrade comp should still apply).