Originally Posted by
RichMSN
Congrats. I was on your side then and am glad you received the compensation you were promised. The reaction in your original thread was bizarre and the embodiment of the old adage "no good deed goes unpunished."
On a semi-related note, I was asked to volunteer at MSN to take a different routing to LGW as the MSN-DTW flight was oversold. $250 in order to arrive at LGW an hour later. No brainer as I was going in 2 days early.
In the end, though, they had the wrong number of seats programmed into the system for the new RJ they were flying and there were 4 extra seats, hence they didn't need the volunteers.
As I was boarding the plane and heading for my new Y seat (they gave my F seat away thinking they WERE going to route me differently) the agent told me that there'd be something for me attached to my WP account and when I checked a few days later, sure enough, I got an ECV for $250 or 25K miles.
That was the issue. Some of the reaction and the contortions of reasoning here was indeed bizzare. That people who dream of compensation day and night for the sligthest inconvenience would be so vehement in this situation is what was bizzare.
Too bad they gave your F away and you were stuck in Y. You deserved to be in Y as you obviously have poor negotiating skills. You didn't deserve anything. The $250 ECV or 25000 miles is only a consolation prize since you are a plat.
That just about sums it all. I am sure you know what I mean.