My husband, daughter and I were flying to Antigua through San Juan on the Saturday which was the first day of spring break in Chicago. American airlines was very booked. We were flying on frequent flyer tickets. We were scheduled at 6:30 am, the first flight out. We volunteered and got $700 each and a free breakfast (I had order a diabetic meal). We were scheduled on the next flight. We were prepared to volunteer again, which we did - this time for $1000 each. Also had our tickets converted to the code that would give us miles for that leg of the trip. We also got lunch. It was the best part of the trip. I have already booked my trip to St. Maarten with ff tickets for the first Saturday of Spring break, 2000, and I'm hoping it will happen again.
I'll let you know. $5100 in total is not bad - and most of the tax is waived so it is in fact worth more. Each time a voucher is used, it gets reissued for the balance and good for a year from the new date. I keep rotating the tickets. The airline kept thanking me volunteering. There are all those people needing to catch cruises and they CAN"T be bumped. My pleasure indeed.

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DtG