{"id":12883,"date":"2015-08-07T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12883"},"modified":"2015-08-07T08:11:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T12:11:33","slug":"the-economics-of-getting-bumped-from-your-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-getting-bumped-from-your-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Getting Bumped From Your Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/080715_1207_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Flights get overbooked and people are told that they can&#8217;t fly that day. Melanie Pinola looked into this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Passengers should never volunteer to give up their seat. Airline compensation for doing so is as little a $200.<\/li>\n<li>In contrast if no one volunteers and the airline is forced to deny passengers boarding, then Federal Law requires compensation of up to $1,300.<\/li>\n<li>Passengers who want to avoid overbookings should shy away from United, Southwest, and, especially, Delta.<\/li>\n<li>Instead they should consider Hawaiian, jetBlue, and Virgin America which have the lowest rates of passengers getting bumped.<\/li>\n<li>Those who are signed up for frequent flyer programs also usually get to avoid being asked to get off the plane.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read other details <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/if-your-flight-is-overbooked-dont-volunteer-to-get-bum-1722036179\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/if-your-flight-is-overbooked-dont-volunteer-to-get-bum-1722036179\">Life Hacker<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flights get overbooked and people are told that they can&#8217;t fly that day. Melanie Pinola looked into this: Passengers should never volunteer to give up their seat. Airline compensation for doing so is as little a $200. In contrast if no one volunteers and the airline is forced to deny passengers boarding, then Federal Law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/080715_1207_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12886,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions\/12886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}