$4K FOR BUMP-Y FLIGHT

Give-up-seat offer

A Delta flight attendant on an overbooked Bostonto-Rome flight resorted to offering as much as $4,000 to persuade more than a dozen passengers to give up their seats, according to a viral video.

“Come on guys, $3,500,” the flight attendant calls out over the intercom like an auctioneer, according to the video posted to TikTok last week. “You could go shopping via gift card . . . Who wants to take one for the team? We got you a hotel.”

By the end of the footage, at least two people could be seen standing up and walking toward the cockpit.

A caption for the video said 13 passengers ended up accepting a voucher, according to accountholder “Only in Boston.”

“Thirteen passengers on an overbooked #Delta flight from #Boston to #Rome were given between $2000-$4000 plus hotel rooms to voluntarily give up their seat on the plane due to the flight being overbooked,” the post read.

Representatives for Delta did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

The TikTok video has garnered over 350,000 views since it was posted Sept. 18, and an influx of comments include users who said they would have nabbed the $3,500 voucher “in a heartbeat!”

“I settled for $800 once from Delta I’d sprint for 3k,” another wrote while an additional user chimed in: “Why does this never happen to me? I could have paid my rent that month.”

Overbooking flights is an unfortunate-yet-common practice as Delta’s Contract of Carriage says it “reserves the right to sell more tickets for travel on each flight than there are seats available on the aircraft.”

“Before denying boarding to any passenger holding a confirmed reservation on an oversold flight, Delta will ask other passengers on the flight to voluntarily give up their seat in exchange for compensation in an amount and form to be determined by Delta in its sole discretion,” the Contract of Carriage notes.

Vouchers have been known to run from a couple hundred dollars to as much as $10,000 depending on the circumstance.

Earlier this year, Sens. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) proposed a bill to force airlines to pay bumped passengers from oversold flights at least $1,350.

The bill was prompted by a Southwest Airlines scheduling fiasco that led to 17,000 canceled flights over the 2022 holiday season.

Southwest had said it would reimburse affected passengers for hotels, rental car and dining costs, but later faced lawsuits from at least one passenger for allegedly not making good on the promise, and by shareholders for allegedly hiding operational problems that led to the mess.

Passengers with canceled flights may get compensation under the new bill, which has yet to be passed.

Airlines for America, a trade association and lobbying group, said the law “would decrease competition and inevitably lead to higher ticket prices and reduced services to small and rural communities.”