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Old 04-10-2017, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by ColdNoMore View Post


While overbooking is a fact of life these days, when it happens and no one steps forward immediately, the airline should suck it up and keep raising the offer...for volunteers to take another flight.

At some point, when the incentive is high enough...someone will volunteer to get off.
Excellent. That is what my husband and I did several years ago; the incentive was so good that we accepted it and had to wait only two more hours for another flight.