TrojanTraveler

A red coat told me this. Good point, not sure if gate agents have this authority. I wonder if they get a red coat (or someone similarly empowered) in a situation that could become involuntary denied boarding?

And the red coat that told me this was working this situation on an int'l flight.

mot29

I believe $1300 is the maximum the airline must pay for in Involuntary Boarding according to 14 CFR 250.5.

sethb

I've seen $1100 from a GA, but I don't know if they had redcoat approval beforehand (oversold tcon).

TrojanTraveler

I think this was along the lines of what the red coat told me (without quoting the code). But he said this had to be given for IDB in cash, no DL dollars/credits.

sethb

Also, $1300 (or any other amount) VDB doesn't get reported and show up in government statistics.

hi55us

Can anyone see if Flight # 124 from MCO to BOS is oversold? They're selling tickets for $429 (h fare) and the seat map is showing everything in coach full except for a few preferred seats... I booked with miles and am worried about getting bumped as I need to get into Boston within 2 hours of the scheduled landing.

sethb

Do you mean tomorrow? I see dozens of empty seats in the seat map, and it's at least Y9.

In any event, if you don't want to get bumped, chances are extremely good that they'll offer someone else enough money not to take the flight.

travelina

I checked in for an international flight and was asked the question if I wanted to volunteer to give up my seat. I said yes but having second thoughts. I am assuming they must get my approval in person before they give my seat away?? I offered $800 so chances are slim ...

sethb

Yes, they need your approval in person after arranging which alternate flight you'll get.

travelina

Thank you Sethb for such a quick response! One more question, if there are no Delta flights available same day can they book you on another airline or must you wait until Delta has a seat the following day?

sethb

Everything is negotiable. If you're traveling TATL, they can rebook you on JV partners easily (and possibly others, depending on how badly they want the seat). Or they can re-route you if that make sense.

travelina

This is LAX-NRT and last flight of the day. Who would be a JV partner for that route? The Flight still shows available seats so I am confused by the offer ?

sethb

They're willing to overbook up to some limit, expecting no-shows. They make the offer if they think they might need VDB. Most of the times I've gotten the offer at check-in, they didn't end up needing anybody.

craz

At OLCI I was asked if Id be bumped told to pick my amount $200-500 chose $500, but there was only 1 flight I would move to

@ KEF got there 90 mins B4 departure time. There was an idiot working the Priority Lane so bad that I could have saved 20 mins had I gone on the kettle line.

Anyway when I got up to the counter I asked about VDB and what was being offered she called the gate was told $1000 voucher, hotel for the night(dont know which one) and flight on Sat 8/29. Sat flight wouldnt work for me and having to stay over to Sun would wipe out most of the $1K voucher, she said they needed a bunch of vols (dont know exact #)

By the time I got to the gate , security line was ridiculous, with only 2 machines being used yet signs all over Apologizing for the long wait due to it being a Peak Time.Duh! if you know its Peak why the heck dont you have 4 or 5 lanes working, and I thought TSA was bad. Anyway I asked at the gate and they said they already had all the vols they needed, since tehyw ere real busy I didnt want to ask all the questions to fin sout which hotel etc etc

Paplover

Had a weird one last week. Going XXX-SLC-MSP-ORF, noticed SLC-MSP was oversold (no tix for sale) an hour before XXX-SLC scheduled to depart. Had a 45 min connection so not much time to deal with a vol at the gate. Plus, alternate connections left 10 and 20 min after SLC-MSP, so figured I would be stuck on a red-eye. Kiosk didn't work so asked GA to put me on the volunteer list for that flight which he did with a $400 bid. Arrived 10 min early, got to gate 40 min before departure to check status and they said I was taken care of, handed me F boarding passes (auto upgrade and bonus MQM as actual F) for the flight 10 min later and an $800 voucher. Never seen a bump processed so far before departure. I then SDC'd to the next flight since that route got in 30 min before what they booked me for.

Thanks for all I learned here.