Originally Posted by UA 882
Wow! That letter must have been REALLY nasty!
By the way, my best bump was $400 and hotel accommodation for going on the next days flight to Tokyo. And I got upgraded as well
It's NW but...
Best I ever saw was $1,500 for an overbooked DTW-CDG flight about 6 years ago. $1,500 PLUS business seats same day via LGW. I guess they were having trouble getting volunteers due to an extremely large group on board.
Best I ever got was $1,000 for DTW-STL of all things! 757 with engine problem, swapped for a DC9! Needed over 50 volunteers. Bad weather too, so obviously things were a bit out of sorts. The $1,000 was due to the number of volunteers needed plus the anticipated 48 hour delay.
Best part was, I did DTW-MEM-MSP-STL and only got in about 8 hours late