JetBlue for one, as they claim. I don't know any others. That's a job for Google search perhaps. And now even the POTUS has spoken: There shouldn't be no ceiling to how high they can offer in cash incentives to entice volunteers in the situation of overbooked flights. So in the future, if they adopt this policy, it's going to be pretty fun. Everybody will be playing what's called the game of the Prisoner's Dilemma when enticing volunteers. If everybody holds out, the first person who volunteers will get a huge windfall of cash in incentives and the longer that everybody holds out, the larger the windfall but everyone else who didn't mind volunteering just lost out and gets $0. But if everybody who doesn't mind holding out tries to beat out everyone else and volunteers first, then the cash incentive will be very small.
Well you ABSOLUTELY correct! So don't be jealous and don't be sour, if you want a better settlement yourself next time, have the courage to do the right thing including standing up to authority like Dr. Dao did. It's because of Dr. Dao that we uncovered a lot of ugly truth that we would've otherwise never have been able to know and hopefully we will be empowered ourselves a bit more to be not treated like cargos by the airline industry and we are ALL going to get more than free trip and some peanuts from UAL in the future. And just some background information for you. According to the press conference that was just given by the lawyer hired by Dr. Dao, they weren't supposed to be there and they were ALL instructed NEVER to use the force that they have utilized when no other passengers' lives or safety were jeopardized. , so yeah in this case the "police" were in the WRONG. Yes in the interest of self-preservation, of course it would be more strategic to just obey the police and then air your grievance later but there are a few people like Dr. Dao who believes that if he's done nothing wrong, he should be able to continue what he's doing and the "police" who weren't supposed to be there in the first place should go away. And yes, for his brave action, in this case he will get a settlement, a generous settlement most likely for what he's been through, a severely broken nose, a concussion, beating to the sinus, loss of 2 front teeth and reconstructive surgeries and publicly humiliated in front of 200+ strangers and now around the world.
Pained: Orquiza (pictured on another day) had swollen legs and an aching body, and was left in tears, her family said. They said they had no problems on the initial flight from Australia to LA http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4409554/United-forced-arthritic-grandma-94-cramped-seat.html
That seems strange, that the staff wouldn t help the great grandma in business class, her needs were probably more than reclining her seat and opening the food . It doesn t sound the greatest idea in the world to buy a J ticket for her while her daughter stays in coach on such a long haul. So much worrying news come out of the US, especially travel related, I m surprised many people are still keen on visiting there.
Well they do have the choice of just not overbook, sell ONE ticket PER seat like all other venues like theatres, hotels (imagine hotels overbooking selling the same room to multiple different families), restaurants (imagine restaurants booking the same table to multiple different patrons or groups), sports stadiums and etc. These venues are all doing fine and there ARE airlines out there that don't overbook and they are surviving just fine. So now it just comes down to which is more profitable: Overbook and then having to fork over $10K per passenger entice volunteering (and they might need to fork over more as I read from a website that as long as you don't cash the compensation cheque they gave you you can later on call their complaint department to negotiate for even BIGGER compensation) VS Not overbook and lose potential seat sale of what max. $3K - $5K roundtrip for Business Class on international flights.
I think you would be surprised at how little United would have had to offer in actual cash and one night free hotel stay at a nearby airport with two-way Uber service to the hotel and back to the airport in order to get a couple of people off the flight. Would not have taken much at all. I know that Delta overbooks. They claimed yesterday that they can offer just under $10k in incentives to get people off a flight. Doubt they would rarely have to go beyond $600.
True it might not be the actual amount that ends up being offered but it's just that the max. authorized amount has been increased now that they KNOW they are not allowed to use force to get ppl off the plane but they REALLY do need the seats. Like I said before, It'll be interesting to see how it panes out. Would passengers turn on each other to force people to volunteer and end up beating each other up because they are in a hurry? Or would everybody collude to hold out so to force the airline to raise the offer? How slow would the gate agent drag out the time between each offer?