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		maaku on July 20, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Man Who Flies Around the World for Free My family still gets those oversold-flight coupons when they get bumped to the next flight. I don't because that would require flying United :P

saryant on July 20, 2015 [–]

IDB/VDB compensation is very different from the compensation you get for a broken reading light. United used to give out absurd amounts of vouchers for the latter but that's pretty much dead these days.

IDB/VDB (what you get in an oversold situation) is an entirely different beast.

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