How do you gamble if you don't know the odds? Did you ask what they were offering to take care of their whale?
My utility to accept the change would be more favorable FRA-SFO than SFO-FRA. Really need the sleep heading east.
It's not like I said "absolutely not". I said "I'd prefer not to". If she was going to offer me compensation she could have. Instead she just wandered off. She did not seem that interested in making this deal happen.
Are FAs empowered to give large amounts of compensation?
Anyway, I slept really well; probably for 7 or 8 hours total, so I'm happy with the result. For westbound I'm not going to sleep much anyway but on the eastbound flight the flat bed is great.