Originally Posted by
N639DL
Here's a story from earlier today:
I was at LGA waiting for a 7pm flight to BOS, at the gate next to where I was waiting was a 6:50pm CR9 to MKE. GA initially announced she needed 4 volunteers and started off with $500. Every time she announced it was DL$, Amex, or other gift cards.
Subsequent offers were $800, $1000, and $1300. Somewhere in there she got 3 volunteers because she again announced $1300 seeking 1 volunteer at that point and they would be rebooked for tomorrow morning.
IME I've never seen a $ offer so high, or it escalating like that.
For next-day travel, it gets that high. Somebody seems to have made a decision that amounts jump a lot; when I got $700, the redcoat was a bit unbelieving that the offer had been made (he said it was supposed to jump from $600 to $800, but when all the VDBs offered to take $800 instead, he went with $700).