<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by starry-eyed reformer:
gt_croz: This strategy of "bumping" is interesting. How much do you get for each "bump"? And how do you do it? By the sounds of it, if one needed some extra moolah, this may well be one method?? hehe..
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When I was in College I made my living literaly during the summer getting bumpped every week. My girlfriend at the time lived in Battle Creek, so every friday afternoon I had two flights booked from Detroit to Boston at 5 or so, and every Friday afternoon I was bumped from both of them. I would get $200 each flight and a Round Trip ticket, and back then $400 was like a zillion dollars today for summer work. I'd take the 7:30 flight on one airline, and turn the other ticket in for one a couple of weeks away to do it all over again.
It's not as good as it was, their software is very good at guessing what is needed, lots more people are doing it, and a couple hundred dollars or a free ticket doesn't mean as much as it did then.