Yep, that has become quite common. DL will severely overbook coach when business is fairly available. You gotta take the plane as a whole. So for example there's a certain A330-200 that's heading overseas today with 16 open in business, but -17 in coach. The plane is overbooked by 1. If absolutely everybody shows up, there will be 17 HKs without assigned seats in coach, and the agent will accomodate as many in business as he can rather than buy off or deny boarding to all of them. When looking at the airport standby list, you gotta take those HKs into account.

For what it's worth, I use a rule of 12 at hub airports. If the number of overbookings for the plane + nonrevs ahead of me ≤ 12 (as of, say, 3 hours prior), I usually get on. At non hub airports the number is less because no misconnects. The euros in particular are very good at making their flights, I've found the number of no-shows at european airports other than AMS & CDG is usually 2 or 3.

Yeah. They probably changed their mind exactly 20 years later.... in 2009. :D

It's not a question of if, but when.

Even if DPMP does survive the next contract, it will be more of the same--- an increase in premiums and a decrease in benefits.

Your One Great Team passes will code you as a 'PSUP' on the upgrade list. That's below any Medallions or COBUS folks but above any other nonrevs. BTW, if there happens to be any other One Great Team riders on your flight, the upgrade goes by check in time, not date of hire, so this is one time it pays to check in at 24hrs prior.

Thanks! Very good info.

Too late. Too much "free stuff". Of course if the Hildabeast gets elected it will be replaced with a single payer, government administered system. So we got that going for us. I can hardly wait.

Absolutely agreed!

I am going to the UT/UO game in a few weeks in Eugene. Take up a collection and I'll get my picture in the middle of that ;) I'll be the drunk one

I feel another book coming on. ;)

+ an Obama debt worth of numbers