Originally Posted by
jiburi
Actually, overbooking in FC or WBC happens more often than you might think.
1) Due to aircraft change and about 5 less first class seats, I got shafted away from my upgraded first class seat. They said they based it on time of check-in. I was Platinum. No compensation.
Sorry you missed the upgrade, but that's not overbooking. That's irrops.
Originally Posted by
jiburi
2) I witnessed four passengers returning to Japan on a 330-200 and was denied WBC seating. They were a WBC fare paying customer but somehow got the short end of the stick. Some compensation was provided but I don't know what that was.... Hopefully it's not a ECV, as they would probably try to book away from NW for the future anyways.....
Perhaps they were trying to leave a day earlier or later and were trying to confirm their standby but were unsuccessful? I'm not sure what the issue was exactly, but I do know that NW does not
overbook FC/WBC under normal circumstances. There are a number of reasons why there could be more pax with FC/WBC boarding passes than there are seats, but again, overbooking usually isn't one of the reasons.