[QUOTE=Xerof;649989]I hear you, but the reality is there is a priority order. EG, on AIR, if a flight is cancelled, the ground staff immediately allocate Gold Elites to the next flight (s) with seating available, followed by Gold, Silver, etc, before you even get to the counter. If you don't have a loyalty card, you are custard. This applies to most, if not all airlines.
I was on a cancelled flight out of Invercargill (and was GE at the time) and was flying with 2 colleagues who were 'custard class' This was my first ever cancelled flight whilst being GE, and I was not expecting to be treated any differently, so we all joined the queue to rebook. I was surprised to find I was already booked on next available, whilst my colleagues were 4 hours later.
As an aside, one of them had a young family to get home to, for me it didn't matter if I was late, so I offered to swap flights. The ground staff looked at me twice, but were happy to follow orders. In appreciation my colleague bought me a Powerball random dip, which struck first division and 26million powerball.:eek2:
That is true and experienced that however that is different than kicking people off the next flight to make room...never seen that happen.....