Emirates representative asks me whether it is critical for me to travel and presents offer of alternative arranagements

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Since the OP appreciated the reasons in the comments, and would like to mark an answer as accepted, I will summarize the comments.

It seems likely that since the flight was packed, the Emirates agent was likely looking for volunteers to get bumped off the flight and take a later flight. Various examples of reasons why more people were not asked:

  • OP was travelling alone
  • OP did not have a connecting flight out of Dubai, and most other passengers likely did
  • Other passengers might have had more expensive tickets, so Emirates more likely to bump a discounted fare
  • Other passengers may have had high levels of frequent flyer status

Now my observations/opinion: If they did not need to bump several people, no need to announce over the PA that they need volunteers. And although the question almost sounded to me like, "Can you take a bus instead of a plane" it could have been what they are trained to say to be more formal way of asking "Do you want to take a later flight for a possible free travel voucher?"

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