If you give up your seat on a Delta flight you could get almost $10,000

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If you give up your seat on a Delta flight you could get almost $10,000
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It looks like Delta has seen what happened with United Airlines (http://mashable.com/category/united-airlines/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)' overbooked passenger fiasco and is making some serious changes to its compensation policies — serious as in way more cash monies to entice volunteers to give up their seats on oversold flights.*

SEE ALSO: Unsettling video captures United passenger being forcibly ******* from overbooked flight (http://mashable.com/2017/04/10/united-passenger-forcibly-*******/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)


The Associated Press reported (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e646773d606f4c39b6ede9efdeabfe98/delta-oks-offers-9950-flyers-who-give-seats) Friday that an internal memo from Delta shows gate agents can **w offer up to $2,000 in compensation, up from an $800 limit, while supervisors can dish out a maximum of $9,950 (up from $1,350). A Delta spokeswoman confirmed those numbers are accurate. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/14/delta-compensation-overbook-increase-united/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

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