Originally Posted by
craz
Wow the OP could have scored a VDB and decided to sit on a full flight in coach instead (I know in the end they were in Row 5)
that Never would have happened to me as I would have asked way before boarding if they needed any Vols
VDB terms originally offered were crappy - at first they couldn't give a flight until the next morning (this was a 4:20 pm departure), so they were giving $400 voucher and a hotel voucher. Then, they changed it to a Delta flight departing from JFK at 7 pm and offered a taxi voucher from EWR to JFK (in that case, you wouldn't earn your OnePass miles!),
I was traveling for work, so VDB was out of the question, and also, not worth it when I paid $1100 for a B fare ticket. $400 is definitely not enough (for me) to compensate for all that additional transport time. Maybe they upped the terms for compensation because while elite access was boarding, there were still no takers, and they needed 6 total!