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Old Oct 22, 2007 | 4:35 am
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Originally Posted by todorovic
Why not just do a VDB, get confirmed on the next flight in C and still get the compensation - maybe a C class ticket of your choosing. I'd bite for that providing I don't have a meeting that absolutely can't be postponed.
Because they can and do try.

USD 1600 is still a reasonable-ish compensation. QF and UA used all kind of silly excuses to get downgrades for almost free and every time I had to fight for a better solution .
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