3/27 -- ORD-MCO, UA654 @ 6AM. Needed two volunteers. Gate agent comes on, offers $1,000 and F seats on the 11:15 AM flight. No takers.

10 minutes later, supervisor comes on board. Offers $1,500 and F seats on the 7:30AM flight (next flight out). So many call buttons, it sounded like a high-density 777.

If I didn't have wife and kids, I would've taken it. As it is, I half-thought about pulling one kid and taking it.

In my experience, that was the highest VDB offer I've ever seen. I couldn't get an MCO agent to go above $800 pp @ Christmas 2015, even though he needed 10 volunteers and couldn't rebook us for 2 days.