Complaint: Canceled / Delayed / Overbooked bumped by delta
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Old Jul 17, 2009, 1:38 AM
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Originally Posted by justme View Post
Not sure that was the case, she said:



Sounds like a "seat request" ticket which would be a low fare class ticket purchased on a travel website such as Travelocity, Orbitz, or Cheaptickets that "reserves" you a seat, but does not assign you one and does not necessarily guarantee a specific seat. While I do agree that the situation could have been handled better and there very well could be a legitimate issue, overbooking is common industry wide.
Wrong again, dude. On DL if your boarding pass prints out with "seat request" it means you have no assigned seat and that all available seats have been assigned. In other words, the flight is overbooked/oversold.