I once met a MSP schoolteacher in HNL who had been travelling to HNL for Xmas for years to visit her son. She always booked to fly back on New Years Day, and was bumped every time.
For 8 years in a row Nw had basically given her sufficient credit with her bump to immediately get her next years ticket for free as well as every other year a trip somehere else.
I love it !
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