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I am what most people would consider to be very well to do.
Would I give up my seat for $10K? Hell yes- unless I was traveling to get an organ transplant.
Do keep in mind that first class tickets to Asia are more than $10K, so I would have to have the $10K AND a guarantee of getting there within the next 24 hrs.
I find the offer from Delta fascinating but wonder the seriousness of it. Nobody took them up on the offer. Why not? In that whole flight nobody was willing to wait?
I find the offer from Delta fascinating but wonder the seriousness of it. Nobody took them up on the offer. Why not? In that whole flight nobody was willing to wait?
I figure a lot of folk figure once they're at the airport (especially if security lines were long), they want to go, by God, and they don't want to wait, so you've got that mental block right there. Myself, I could see after dealing with the drive to the airport, finding parking, going through security, only *then* to be asked if I'd be bumped might make me dig in my heels. On the other hand, if I got a call before I left my house asking if I'd be willing to be bumped for $10,000, I'd probably be very happy to do so.
There could be a lot of other reasons as well--going to a special event, need to get back home for work, don't want to deal with the hassle of find a place for you and your kids, such as that.
I would think most people would take the 10 grand unless there were some special circumstances. If my wife & I were flying to visit my MIL in Florida and one of us got bumped, I'd let her go ahead.
I figure a lot of folk figure once they're at the airport (especially if security lines were long), they want to go, by God, and they don't want to wait, so you've got that mental block right there. Myself, I could see after dealing with the drive to the airport, finding parking, going through security, only *then* to be asked if I'd be bumped might make me dig in my heels. On the other hand, if I got a call before I left my house asking if I'd be willing to be bumped for $10,000, I'd probably be very happy to do so.
There could be a lot of other reasons as well--going to a special event, need to get back home for work, don't want to deal with the hassle of find a place for you and your kids, such as that.
I still find it hard to believe on a whole plane not one person didn't take them up on 10K.
I first saw this several years ago .... things have not changed.
I get the drift of it but planes are different from paint. If I don't buy paint, you don't have to spend hundreds of thousands on getting a plane ready, gassing it up, paying for fuel and crew. So while it makes a point, it's a ridiculous comparison.
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