Comping for getting bumped?
Jul 23, 2000 | 8:23 pm
#2
Join Date: Mar 2000
Programs: UA 1PMM,AAG; usedtobeelite
Posts: 2,500
NW gave me $500 yesterday for a 2 hour delay and kept me in complimentary FC on the next flight. I've heard lower numbers like $300 in the airports but appreciated this agent cutting right to the chase. Have never heard the $1000 quoted on this board.
Jul 23, 2000 | 9:32 pm
#3
Join Date: Aug 1999
Location: Howell, Michigan, USA
Programs: DL 2+Million Miler, Delta Platinum(by choice), Hilton Diamond, Marriott Titanium, IHG Platinum
Posts: 649
Last summer, I was trying to go to San Franciso, but airfare was over $1,700 with NW. I booked a $350 fare to Reno on NW and a $86 United shuttle. I saved the company money and I got a chance both ways to play a little Blackjack during the layovers. NW was overbooked and was offering $1,000, but the best they could confirm was a 12 hour delay. I asked if they could put me on some other flight close like San Francisco. They said sure. So, I walked to the very next gate, boarded the $1,700 plane with $1,000 in my pocket for the $350 Reno ticket and left before the Reno plane. Go figure the logic in that.
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Jul 23, 2000 | 11:01 pm
#6
Join Date: Jun 1999
Location: New York
Posts: 54
One of the worst cases I have seen occurred recently at MDW.
AA only offered a $200 voucher for a 2.5 hour delay. 150 minutes in MDW which doesn't have an Admiral's club and the A/C wasn't working, so the temperature was almost 80 degrees fahrenheit in the terminal.
Naturally, no one took this offer so they had to involuntarily bump someone.
AA only offered a $200 voucher for a 2.5 hour delay. 150 minutes in MDW which doesn't have an Admiral's club and the A/C wasn't working, so the temperature was almost 80 degrees fahrenheit in the terminal.
Naturally, no one took this offer so they had to involuntarily bump someone.
Jul 23, 2000 | 11:53 pm
#7
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: STL, MO, USA;BCN, Spain;LGW, UK
Posts: 840
In 98 I bought a RT ticket for travel to Europe on NW for just under $500. Then whilst in Europe NW went on strike and I was scheduled on an AA return. AA bumped me and gave me $1500 on vouchers. I thought I got a great deal 