Originally Posted by
nene
This is literally the way DAL has been operating for last few years, they "bid" off extra pax in the form of an AMEX gift card good as cash for wherever amex is accepted. This winter alone I saw a family of 6 get "bought" off an oversold ATL-EGE flight with a guarantee for the next day to the tune of over $24K ($4K per ticket). That was for what they said was about $3K in tickets originally.
Lastly, SWA cancelled flights for three days this winter and said it was due to snow in Denver (WX). So "controllable" cancellations are going to be a little harder to pin down.
see to me having aircraft out of position because you had poor planning and poor operation are controllable. Shouldnt call is wx and uncontrollable if 4 days ago a storm caused cancellations and every aircraft and crew are out of position. Only call it uncontrollable if the direct inbound is delayed due to wx your departure city/enroute/arrival has wx causing a ground stop.
also delays triggering compensation should have a time on them such as over 4 hrs or something higher. A 1 hr delay shouldn’t trigger anything. It should be significant delays