Originally Posted by
TalkingPoint
FA are definitely not restricted to 1k miles. I’ve had friendly FA issue me more for no reason but just to be nice. Proactively offered as an apology for “recent delayed/cancelled flights in your travel history” due to the 737max9 issue. So I’m sure 1k is not the max they can offer when there’s a real issue.
I would say much of the time when FAs promise to issue compensation it doesn't happen. I've had multiple instances of FA's promising comp, entering it into their device and then it never showing up.