Originally Posted by RunawayNFly
In the last 3 out of 4 weeks my Friday afternoon flights from ATL to south Florida were oversold by 12-20 passengers on the days prior to the flights. Each one went out with seats open, including one that was 20 over but went out with 2 empty seats. Last Friday, my flight was 5 oversold 5 hours prior to my flight but when I landed in ATL, they had 20 empty seats.
Bottom line, I don't think that you can guess about being bumped on Delta anymore based on seat availability since many people end up not on their original flights for a variety of reasons, including mechanicals, weather, etc.
Ahh....this brings back memories of my non-rev days.
A flight could show -2/-15 when I called the employee list request line and I wouldn't be worried....somehow I always got on. Really, the numbers can change at a moment's notice for any number of reasons.
Originally Posted by Erasmus
All zeros doesn't always mean oversold.
I never knew this until last weekend. I couldn't get a seat assignment on one of my flights, which was showing all zeros.
I called in a favor and asked a DL employee to check numbers for me in the system and the flight was actually positive 2/1.