[HN Gopher] Delta offered $10k to passengers in Grand Rapids to ...
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       Delta offered $10k to passengers in Grand Rapids to be bumped from
       flight
        
       Author : avonmach
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2022-07-02 22:36 UTC (24 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (l.facebook.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (l.facebook.com)
        
       | texaslonghorn5 wrote:
       | Link says Facebook but it really redirects to a YouTube link with
       | tracking. It opened the YouTube app on my phone which was
       | unexpected/startled me.
       | 
       | Mods maybe want to change the link to this so the domain is
       | accurate? https://youtube.com/watch?v=h5W4SEXuMQ4
        
         | texaslonghorn5 wrote:
         | Alternatively, here's the article by the same local news
         | channel that posted the YouTube video:
         | 
         | https://www.wzzm13.com/article/travel/delta-airlines-offered...
         | 
         | https://archive.ph/4bwFd
        
       | spaetzleesser wrote:
       | I once got paid $800 to wait for 4 more hours to fly to Idaho
       | Springs. 10k would be my vacation budget for quite a while.
        
       | loxias wrote:
       | Ugh, I hate video links! Who has time for that.
       | 
       | I found these using google:
       | 
       | https://www.wzzm13.com/article/travel/delta-airlines-offered...
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       | https://eyeoftheflyer.com/2022/06/28/delta-bump-80000-grand-...
        
       | lordnacho wrote:
       | How does it make sense to pay that much money? That's $80k for
       | the eight people who took the deal.
       | 
       | Was there some special person who was carrying some important
       | item? Or can you pay to bump other people off a flight like that,
       | just because you're rich?
       | 
       | Astonishing that this could happen, I'm pretty sure I'd take the
       | $10k. Seems like easy money.
        
         | loxias wrote:
         | I'm just as curious as you -- I can kinda see the math behind
         | sloppily overbooking and paying $3-500 occasionally for the
         | operational cost savings, but I have a tough time seeing how it
         | adds up once you're paying out 10s of K$.
         | 
         | Here's a thread of people discussing it:
         | https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta-air-lines-skymiles/208...
        
         | 27182818284 wrote:
         | They start at a lower amount and then increase it until they
         | have the required people. The lower and upper bound on what
         | they can offer first appeared in a leaked 2017 memo. 2017 also
         | happens to be the year of the violent removal of someone on a
         | United flight:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Express_passenger_...
         | 
         | My guess would be that Delta put this policy into place after
         | the terrible United incident.
        
       | hn_throwaway_99 wrote:
       | I don't remember the compensation being that high if an airline
       | bumps you involuntarily for an overbooked flight. Perhaps,
       | though, that airlines have gotten so nervous about unruly
       | passengers and ugly viral videos that they feel it's just worth
       | it to pay volunteers more than they would have to if they bumped
       | people involuntarily?
        
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