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pinky0926 posted...

eston posted...

The article says they offered incentives but there were no takers.

I get why they overbook, but it seems like they could get better at figuring all this out. I don't think I've been on a flight where they didn't have to pay people out to take a different flight. And then that flight is probably overbooked too.

From what I heard, they stopped at a few hundred bucks. I mean they could have shelled out more to prevent this.

Article says $400 vouchers were offered first, then $800. That's pretty standard as far as airlines go. My sister was recently offered $500 and then $1000 on a Delta flight.

The issue here is that all the other airlines aren't going to let people actually take a seat first, because there's not much you can do when somebody is already sitting down, as they showed.
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