After a traveler said Delta Air Lines recently offered passengers $10,000 in cash to take a later flight after overbooking, many were shocked and started considering what their airplane seat might be worth.
Jason Aten wrote this week that he and other passengers waiting for takeoff from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Minneapolis-St. Paul were told the flight was oversold and the airline was looking for eight volunteers willing to give up their seat for the payoff. He wrote that the flight attendant said, “If you have Apple Pay, you’ll even have the money right now.”
“I would argue that $10,000 seems like a lot, and in all of the flying I do, I’ve never seen it before,” Aten, a tech columnist, wrote on Inc.com. “Several people I spoke to who also travel a lot had never heard of it before.”
