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The offered price of the bump wasn't the only failure, or even the most important failure, in that chain of events. Note that this behavior is extremely, unbel
by bb611 9y ago
The offered price of the bump wasn't the only failure, or even the most important failure, in that chain of events.
Note that this behavior is extremely, unbelievably rare. N=1 over hundreds of millions of flights rare.
There is a lot of other discontent regarding bumping on oversold flights, but the existence of a cash minimum doesn't by necessity lead to assaulting passengers.
- mikeash 9y agoI disagree. Their ability and willingness to remove people involuntarily creates an adversarial relationship where none needed to exist. Everything else flows from that. Yes, assault is super-rare in these cases, but unhappy passengers are fairly common. People hate the airlines for overbooking. If they always offered enough compensation for people to be willingly bumped, this wouldn't be the case.