Posted on 04/14/2017 2:13:44 PM PDT by LouieFisk
Delta is letting employees offer customers almost $10,000 in compensation to give up seats on overbooked flights, hoping to avoid an uproar like the one that erupted at United after a passenger was dragged off a jet.
In an internal memo obtained Friday by The Associated Press, Delta Air Lines said gate agents can offer up to $2,000, up from a previous maximum of $800, and supervisors can offer up to $9,950, up from $1,350.
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Just in case you like to keep up with the smarter-than-us MSM.
Hope somebody can get a screenshot before they edit out their error.
Vouchers are fine as long as you can use them to buy multiple tickets and keep the residue until used up. If it is a voucher for up to 10K for one round trip for one person then it is not really 10k.
Thanks......nice to know how “smart” they really are.
ROTFLOL.
No, it will be like an auction.
While you are holding out for the full amount, I’ll snatch up the money by jumping a few hundred dollars lower. If that slacker student over there doesn’t grab the cash $100 lower than me.
Could be.
For those who know how to do it, miles on AA are better than regular tickets. One-way tickets are horrendous, but can be purchased with miles. I can change the dates on my free tickets without cost. I used to be able to arrange stopovers, but can still do open-jaws and up to 24-hours at gateway cities. I recently returned from a 3-week trip to Lithuania, Ukraine, and Poland for $1,400 cash... for 2 people! Tell me how else that can be done? (plus 85,000 miles and one free hotel night)
And....They should be prepared to offer even more if the $10,000 is not accepted.
“That’s nice, but unless someone wants to give up their seat for almost $10k, they shouldn’t have to. If I buy something, my expectation is that it’s mine - I don’t expect the seller to try to take it back with a promise that he’ll sell it to me later because someone else needs it now.”
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Unless I’m on my way to get a heart transplant, if they give me 10 grand cash and free hotel, I’d probably be okay with it. They wanna try to force me off when I’m seated, it’s a different story. They’ll have to try to pick on the next person on their “to bump” list and hope s/he is more amenable.
“How about 10 million years?”
By then we’ll all be using Elon Musk’s levitating tube thing.
“until the planes become full again.”
The planes are already full to the gills. Pretty much every flight, everywhere. They aren’t going to lose a dime in revenue over this.
There are only 4 major airlines left in America. Who are you going to fly, if not them? Greyhound?
Delta gives people a gift card, basically. A lot of the people who have the time to give up their seats aren’t frequent fliers and therefore might not want a voucher for a flight - but everybody knows how to use cash!
That said, I fly Delta a lot, and while it’s often business related - I’m the business, so nobody is paying but me. There’s no corporate account. So therefore I could pick any airline, but I always pick Delta because they have always treated me decently. When flights have been cancelled - rare, but it happens occasionally on one international route I fly - they put us up, rebook us and upgrade anybody who they can on the new flight. And the staff is usually courteous and knowledgeable.
I’m not surprised about these United reports, because I have never had a pleasant flight with them (I think there’s a management problem, because their public contact personnel always seem very stressed and on edge) and I stopped flying United once I moved into Delta territory and discovered how nice it was to be well-treated.
Pretty stupid move on Delta’s part. I realize that they’re trying to capitalize on a competitor’s mistake, but now every traveler, even Ma/Pa McFlyingOnceADecadeToSeeDollywoodOrSixFlags is going to demand top dollar if they can get it.
I flew with Delta last weekend when they had the meltdown. They were struggling to clear overbooked seats at $800. This would have helped.
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