Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights

Re:Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, dela... by schrodinger on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @09:19PM (#40152128)

Hmm? The flights originally cost around $700 since it was winter season. So I got paid around $1200 per flight to sit in a lounge with free unlimited food and drinks for 3 hours. Of course would prefer more, but $400/hr to relax in a lounge is a job I'd take! Besides, I could have said no…

And it ended up being around 3 or 4 years, but because of the pandemic. I honestly don't remember the original amount, 1 or 2 years. Either way I had no issue using them. I was even able to use them to pay for another traveler as long as I was also on the booking (bought my mother a ticket).

Side note: No need for this dismissive tone, my statements were obviously subjective—one person's generous can easily be another person's disappointing. So you're in violation of two HN guidelines:

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Re:Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, dela... by disillusioned on Thursday April 25, 2024 @04:21AM (#40154868)

14 CFR 250.5 calls for an airline to compensate you for involuntarily denied boarding for overbooking (your circumstance) to the tune of 400% of the fare (though this is capped at $1,550) per person, so that's a helpful index to understand what benefit there might be holding out.

Airlines _will_ frequently offer voluntary benefits in excess of this amount to maintain good relationships, and gate agents for, say, Delta, can even offer as high as nearly $10k [1], which is kind of crazy: you'd think they'd just fall back on the involuntary limits.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/delta-10000-offer-to-switch-fli....

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Re:Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, dela... by schrodinger on Thursday April 25, 2024 @08:19AM (#40156592)

I was not involuntarily denied boarding, I was voluntarily denied and in fact lucky to get the offer as multiple people wanted it once it hit that level, since it was an early afternoon flight for which a 3 hour delay again with lounge was quite pleasant.

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Re:Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, dela... by graton on Thursday April 25, 2024 @05:09AM (#40155180)

But only to those who are involuntary bumped. So they look for volunteers who will take less than that first. So far when I have traveled the offer hasn't been enough that I have wanted to give up my spot. But the person above's offer sounds like one I would have considered.

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