BUMP! | A Talk About Airline Denied Boarding Including a Delta Experience | VDB & IDB
A Talk About Airline Denied Boarding Including a Delta Experience: VDB stands for “Voluntary Denied Boarding (I’ll forgive the fact that it should be “voluntarily,” since “voluntary” places so much stress on the modifier.),” and refers to a situation where an airline has oversold a flight, selling more seats than it actually has on the plane, forcing it to ask for volunteers to give up their seats.