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Widgets May 27, 2017 1:15 am


Originally Posted by Paplover (Post 28365225)
ATL was a nightmare today. Booked ORF-ATL-SEA-PSC, 2 hours before departure got a call for $200 voucher or 20,000 sky miles for later flight that got in sooner due to overbooked ATL-SEA leg. On rebooked ATL-SLC leg, got $800 voucher to spend night in SLC. There wer about 25 on the standby list. On shuttle to Residence Inn everyone had at least one bump out of SLC, some with two bumps.

Sooo, how does Delta decide who to call offering bumps? This was the first time I got a call.

I believe everyone with a phone number gets a call. I don't know how the order is determined.

Jay00848 May 27, 2017 5:16 am

MCI -ATL asked for 5 needed only 1 for $500

georgewchubby May 29, 2017 11:13 am

I'm trying to spend my $800 which I received almost a year ago, and I'm running into an issue which I can't quite understand.

Trying to book CPH-LAS next year for my so and myself, which comes to a total of 7,312 DKK. The eCredit is worth 5,311 DKK, so I should only have to pay 2,001 DKK and yet I'm being asked to pay 3,656 DKK, which is the full price of one ticket. The eCredit is basically only being applied to one passenger instead of the full booking.

Is this normal behaviour and is there some way of getting the eCredit to be applied to the full price? I'm calling Delta tomorrow when they open, so I'm just hoping that someone here knows more than me until then :)

Thanks!

suvayanr May 29, 2017 11:46 am


Originally Posted by georgewchubby (Post 28374595)
I'm trying to spend my $800 which I received almost a year ago, and I'm running into an issue which I can't quite understand.

Trying to book CPH-LAS next year for my so and myself, which comes to a total of 7,312 DKK. The eCredit is worth 5,311 DKK, so I should only have to pay 2,001 DKK and yet I'm being asked to pay 3,656 DKK, which is the full price of one ticket. The eCredit is basically only being applied to one passenger instead of the full booking.

Is this normal behaviour and is there some way of getting the eCredit to be applied to the full price? I'm calling Delta tomorrow when they open, so I'm just hoping that someone here knows more than me until then :)

Thanks!

website doesn't do to correctly. You've got to call in

georgewchubby May 29, 2017 12:14 pm


Originally Posted by suvayanr (Post 28374711)
website doesn't do to correctly. You've got to call in

Thanks! Good thing I'm not the one going crazy ;)

Renes Points May 29, 2017 12:37 pm

DTW-AMS 11MAY17 in Delta One. Oversold and GA came on-board requesting volunteers thus scored 2x$3,000 vouchers. Delay was 6 hours. Also 4x$15 food vouchers. ^

pmarrsouth May 29, 2017 1:22 pm


Originally Posted by Renes Points (Post 28374903)
DTW-AMS 11MAY17 in Delta One. Oversold and GA came on-board requesting volunteers thus scored 2x$3,000 vouchers. Delay was 6 hours. Also 4x$15 food vouchers. ^

nice win!

hi55us May 31, 2017 6:55 pm


Originally Posted by Renes Points (Post 28374903)
DTW-AMS 11MAY17 in Delta One. Oversold and GA came on-board requesting volunteers thus scored 2x$3,000 vouchers. Delay was 6 hours. Also 4x$15 food vouchers. ^

yowzers, first claim I've seen over the $1,200 IDB threshold, although makes sense for D1.

Spent_All_My_Miles May 31, 2017 7:28 pm

The storms in NYC on May 25 resulted in a lot of oversold flights on May 26.

LGA-MCI, needed 5-6 volunteers, started at $600, finished at $1,000, to take LGA-ATL-MCI and arrive 5-6 hours later.

TommyD2 Jun 1, 2017 3:48 pm

Decent voucher day today at PIT.

Had a 10:30am (roughly) via Detroit to Milwaukee. Oversold, got $600 voucher, plus food vouchers, to take flights (same route) about 3 hours later.

Then that flight was oversold, so got another $800 to travel home via ATL, which gets me there only an hour later than the first re-scheduled flight.

So basically $1400 for 5 hours of delay/airport time.

aw4381 Jun 1, 2017 4:43 pm

Offered $800 MLB to ATL last week.

Renes Points Jun 1, 2017 5:40 pm


Originally Posted by hi55us (Post 28385671)
yowzers, first claim I've seen over the $1,200 IDB threshold, although makes sense for D1.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_0RG2vUQAEZx2M.jpg

Well the GAs can go to 2k but took someone a bit higher to print these :-)

3Cforme Jun 1, 2017 7:09 pm


Originally Posted by hi55us (Post 28385671)
yowzers, first claim I've seen over the $1,200 IDB threshold, although makes sense for D1.

The DOT's IDB compensation max has been lifted to $1,350.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/250.5

lovefly88 Jun 1, 2017 9:05 pm

Looking at booking a trip in Aug/Sept. returning to NYC around Labor Day. Do most think Monday being Labor Day or Tuesday after is a busier day with higher likelihood of being bumped?

jjmoore Jun 2, 2017 6:36 am


Originally Posted by lovefly88 (Post 28391058)
Looking at booking a trip in Aug/Sept. returning to NYC around Labor Day. Do most think Monday being Labor Day or Tuesday after is a busier day with higher likelihood of being bumped?

Hard to tell. I flew on Monday this week.... with it being Memorial day and afternoon coming out of Vegas, my flights were wide open on DL. I was quite surprised as we went out with empty seats, and there were many open seats even prior to departure....

As I have posted in other VDB forums, there are likely days for oversales, but there ultimately is no way to really predict. It's all chance. Most of my VDB's have been on Fridays and Sundays, for instance.... and this does not depend on holidays.


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