My best ever compensation was last year in London. American was overbooked, looking for volunteers London to SFO. At first they offered $600 but upped the ante to $1500! My husband could not stay (work...) but I jumped at that one. They put me up in a 4 star hotel at Heathrow and fed me for 24 hrs. I took the train into downtown and rode around in a double decker tour bus for the first time in many years. It was great to see how much London has been scrubbed clean. My son got a freebie to Alaska off a $59 RT ticket. We have been given compensation even though we were on an award. Our experience is that it is first come first served regardless of your ticket. We now also have 2 free tix anywhere American flies domestically for volunteering Las Vegas to SFO. Not bad. One day we sat at San Diego and volunteered 3 times since we had nothing to do all afternoon anyway and gobbled up a bunch of scrip. Labor Day Weekend...