Delta avoids the overbooking issue by having a much SMARTER policy

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28. Thanks for the article share

A telling quote in it that demonstrates that United is predatory in its bump practices.

For the past several years, Delta has largely outperformed its major competitors, United and American, in bumping far fewer passengers involuntarily while routinely getting more passengers to voluntarily fly standby. In 2014, about 96 of every 100,000 Delta fliers had to take a later flight because the plane was overbooked. This compared to 95 at United and 50 at American. But only three of every 100,000 Delta passengers were bumped involuntarily. United had to bump 11 and American, five. Multiplied out, Delta was able to get thousands more of its passengers to agree to stay behind and bumped thousands fewer passengers involuntarily.


There is an important question for the UAL CEO. Too bad no reporter will ask that question (Are you predatory in your bump practices, and how random is your "random" selection process). It would be useful to see the demographics of that selected group. They may represent disparate impact to a protected class.