They could just as easily have flown their employees to Louisville on a private jet.
I have even seen it suggested that the employees could even have gone by taxi, though I don't know if that was really practical.
Anyway, seems to me the best solution would have been to simply keep raising their offer for compensation until they got enough volunteers. Whatever they had to pay would have been far less than the $1.6B hit they took to their stock price.
(I actually like Delta's solution the best: they ask you when you check in how much you would accept to get bumped. It's fair and efficient.)
I have even seen it suggested that the employees could even have gone by taxi, though I don't know if that was really practical.
Anyway, seems to me the best solution would have been to simply keep raising their offer for compensation until they got enough volunteers. Whatever they had to pay would have been far less than the $1.6B hit they took to their stock price.
(I actually like Delta's solution the best: they ask you when you check in how much you would accept to get bumped. It's fair and efficient.)