Do I need to worry about these airline tickets?

[Anonymous]

Booked changeable main cabin tickets, noticed they dropped nearly $200 a ticket, asked for a received an ecredit. But in doing so, it dropped us down to the third cheapest fare, from “main cabin” fare to “deeply discounted main cabin” fare. This is on Delta. I have no clue what any of this means or if I need to be worried we will be bumped or something.

[Anonymous]

yes you're getting bumped. Or someone with a medical need will get your seats.

[Anonymous]

You're not getting bumped. It just means it's a discounted ticket and will be hard to change if you need to, or you'll be the last to board. Do you have seats?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yes you're getting bumped. Or someone with a medical need will get your seats.

Troll. They’re trying to scare you. Basic Economy would go first, and also, they’d offer up incentives before booting anyone. You’re fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're not getting bumped. It just means it's a discounted ticket and will be hard to change if you need to, or you'll be the last to board. Do you have seats?

Yes, we have seats. The tickets are changeable and include seat selection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yes you're getting bumped. Or someone with a medical need will get your seats.

What? Delta in particular is pretty adamant about not involuntarily removing people from flights. There was just a story last week about how they paid someone over $3000 to give up their seat voluntarily.

https://www.reddit.com/r/delta/comments/1k4qw03/delta_offered_3000_to_get_off_a_flight_after/

The substantive odds of OP getting bumped off the flight against their will is probably about the same as getting hit by lightning.

https://www.bts.gov/content/passengers-boarded-and-denied-boarding-largest-us-air-carriersathousands-passengers

In 2023 there were about 866 million people boarded on US commercial planes. 26,000 were involuntarily denied boarding- or 0.003%. Delta might have like 1,000 of those- they are, as shown above, well known for trying to avoid involuntarily denying boarding.

[Anonymous]

I fly regularly, always buy the cheapest possible fare. Have never been "involuntarily denied boarding." I have signed up several times to voluntarily bump and have only ever received that once over many many years.

[Anonymous]

Call their 800# or tweet them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Booked changeable main cabin tickets, noticed they dropped nearly $200 a ticket, asked for a received an ecredit. But in doing so, it dropped us down to the third cheapest fare, from “main cabin” fare to “deeply discounted main cabin” fare. This is on Delta. I have no clue what any of this means or if I need to be worried we will be bumped or something.

Well there you go. Get what you paid for, so to speak.