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Old March 8th, 2004, 08:22 AM
Andy P. Jung
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Default Getting bumped on award ticket?

I have a DL Award Ticket from MSY-DFW-LAX-TPE and I have a 12 hour layover
in LAX on March 17. Any chance of getting any freebies if I was to volunteer
to get bumped? It is Spring Break season. Right now, there are only 15 seats
available for the MSY-DFW segment on a CRJ 700 and 25 seats for the DFW-LAX
segment on an MD88. I would love to fly First Class on a 762 to ATL and
Business on a 777 to LAX.


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Metairie, Louisiana U.S.A.
http://www.JungWorld.com/

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Old March 8th, 2004, 08:34 AM
mtravelkay
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Andy P. Jung wrote:
I have a DL Award Ticket from MSY-DFW-LAX-TPE and I have a 12 hour layover
in LAX on March 17. Any chance of getting any freebies if I was to volunteer
to get bumped?


In my experience, they don't care if the volunteer is flying on a free
ticket. One time, I was flying with someone and the were on a free
ticket on a WN "friends fly free" promotion. The plane was going from
SJC to Burbank. The LA area was all fogged over, so after circling over
the fog for awhile, we returned to SJC and the plane was needed for
another flight. They offered everyone on board the value of their one
way ticket, PLUS $200 to take an alternate plane. We ended up on a
flight 1/2 hour to LA. My friend on the free ticket got the value of the
ticket($0) plus the $200. It wasn't too bad, since the weather delay
made us to late to get in a full day at Universal, and arriving in LAX
made it easier to do something else that day. My best day on WN was a
double bump on the Friday of a holiday weekend. I went to a job
interview in San Antonio on a full fare ticket (over $700). One bump got
me the one way fare plus $300. The confirmed my seat on the next flight,
which again needed volunteers. I got $200 plus the cost of the one way
fare. I think the total voucher value was around $1200.

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Old March 8th, 2004, 01:02 PM
Ulf Kutzner
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mtravelkay schrieb:

made it easier to do something else that day. My best day on WN was a
double bump on the Friday of a holiday weekend. I went to a job
interview in San Antonio on a full fare ticket (over $700). One bump got
me the one way fare plus $300. The confirmed my seat on the next flight,
which again needed volunteers. I got $200 plus the cost of the one way
fare. I think the total voucher value was around $1200.


But you were a bit late for your interview?

Regards, ULF
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Old March 8th, 2004, 07:52 PM
mtravelkay
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Ulf Kutzner wrote:

mtravelkay schrieb:


made it easier to do something else that day. My best day on WN was a
double bump on the Friday of a holiday weekend. I went to a job
interview in San Antonio on a full fare ticket (over $700). One bump got
me the one way fare plus $300. The confirmed my seat on the next flight,
which again needed volunteers. I got $200 plus the cost of the one way
fare. I think the total voucher value was around $1200.



But you were a bit late for your interview?


It was on the return.


  #5  
Old March 8th, 2004, 08:59 PM
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Cisco troll/netkook Michael Voight mtravelkay kooked:

Ulf Kutzner wrote:

mtravelkay schrieb:


made it easier to do something else that day. My best day on WN was a
double bump on the Friday of a holiday weekend. I went to a job
interview in San Antonio on a full fare ticket (over $700). One bump got
me the one way fare plus $300. The confirmed my seat on the next flight,
which again needed volunteers. I got $200 plus the cost of the one way
fare. I think the total voucher value was around $1200.



But you were a bit late for your interview?


It was on the return.


IP address: 171.71.79.114
Host name: mvoight-w2k02.cisco.com

So you went to work at Cisco instead, where there's no work to do at all, just
sit in the office trolling usenet all day long and collect a pay check at the
end of the week.

About Rogue Cisco Employee Michael "mrtravelkay" Voight,
a.k.a. the "mrtravel" Netkook Troll/Usenet Flooder

***WARNING: THIS IDIOT HAS BEEN CAUGHT FORGING PEOPLE'S IDENTITIES ON USENET
AND CANCELLING THEIR POSTS.***

"mrtavelkay" is the latest usenet handle of a brainless troll whose real name is
Michael Voight, email .

He is better known by his previous stupid handle, "mrtravel".

The idiot works for Cisco in San Jose and apparently they don't
keep him busy enough so he has to troll usenet when he isn't
looking for foreign brides to marry in exchange for money
in alt.visa.us.marriage-based and alt.personals.big-folks, or trying
to pick up minors in alt.personals.teens or any of the number of creepy
newsgroups he frequents. Some of his other trolling aliases are Network
Guy, , sleepydoc , jlhunt
, and Lost 5 of 8 , mrt ,
news.sf.sbcglobal.net , not-nomen
, David Tanner
, Jeff Davies , BobTheBuilder
.

All intelligent members of the usenet community have killfiled him, so he takes
great pains to get past their killfiles by rubbing his only two cerebral neurons
together and coming up with gems like: mrtrav , mrtrav3
, mrraveltay , and mrtravelkay
, and mtravelkay and ""a.a\"@a,a,a.
The lastest product of his brain diarrhea is Bill Clarkj
.

He seems to like to hang out in alt.sex.preteen. Hmmm....

His phone numbers are 831-295-3628 and 831-252-2606.

He's got a daughter in Orange County that one of his ex-wives had the
intelligence to take away from him. Lord only knows what could have
happened to her if she had continued to live with the kook. The other kids
he has belong to his previous Russian sleazy brides, and since they come
and go so do the kids. It wouldn't hurt to let Cisco know what kind of
deviant sexual pervert maniac they have working for them, so....

For starters, forward his idiotic posts to
.

He works in technical support, so forward them to
.

He often posts through sbcglobal and prodigy, so forward them to
and as well.

You can also call them at 1 800 553 2447 and ask to speak with a supervisor
and explain that you are EXTREMELY unhappy that this idiot spends his whole
day at work playing on the internet on company time. THEY WILL NOT LIKE
THAT.

Then write to corporate headquarters explaining what this idiot is doing
and telling them HOW BAD IT IS FOR THEIR COMPANY IMAGE. They will LOVE
that you brought this to their attention:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
170 West Tasman Dr.
San Jose, CA 95134
USA

Then also call them. You should always follow up email or letters with
phone calls. Always ask for supervisors or managers. Try to get as far up
as possible.

(408)526-4000
(800)553-NETS or
(800)553-6387

Contact Investor Relations and tell them you are interested in investing in
their company but won't do so until they get rid of this asshole who is
wasting company resources:

Cisco Systems, Inc.
Investor Relations Department
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134-1706
Phone: (408) 526-8890
Fax: (408) 526-4545
Email:


Might as well contact customer service too, they LOVE to hear about this
type of stuff:

USA 1 800 553 6387




Then finally, send letters with copies of his nasty posts addressed
personally to each one of the OFFICERS of the company using the
headquarters address. Believe me, they READ your complaints and are VERY
INTERESTED in them, especially if it's about one of their employees. They
will take a PERSONAL interest in rooting this ASSHOLE out of their company:

John Morgridge, Chairman
John Chambers, President, CEO
Donald Valentine, Vice Chairman
Larry Carter, CFO, Sr. VP-Fin. and Admin., Sec., Director
Richard Justice, Sr. VP, Worldwide Field Operations

Have fun!

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Old March 8th, 2004, 11:11 PM
gerald
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I have been bumped in FRA or MUC (even involuntaried?) to IAD 4 or 5
times on UA with a legal seat in C using an upgrade.

I have never been UG to F, and was once given the choice of renting a
room for the night(my cost), or flying back through CDG, all in Y.


On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 07:34:23 GMT, mtravelkay wrote:

Andy P. Jung wrote:
I have a DL Award Ticket from MSY-DFW-LAX-TPE and I have a 12 hour layover
in LAX on March 17. Any chance of getting any freebies if I was to volunteer
to get bumped?


In my experience, they don't care if the volunteer is flying on a free
ticket. One time, I was flying with someone and the were on a free
ticket on a WN "friends fly free" promotion. The plane was going from
SJC to Burbank. The LA area was all fogged over, so after circling over
the fog for awhile, we returned to SJC and the plane was needed for
another flight. They offered everyone on board the value of their one
way ticket, PLUS $200 to take an alternate plane. We ended up on a
flight 1/2 hour to LA. My friend on the free ticket got the value of the
ticket($0) plus the $200. It wasn't too bad, since the weather delay
made us to late to get in a full day at Universal, and arriving in LAX
made it easier to do something else that day. My best day on WN was a
double bump on the Friday of a holiday weekend. I went to a job
interview in San Antonio on a full fare ticket (over $700). One bump got
me the one way fare plus $300. The confirmed my seat on the next flight,
which again needed volunteers. I got $200 plus the cost of the one way
fare. I think the total voucher value was around $1200.


  #7  
Old March 9th, 2004, 07:19 AM
Treb
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Default Getting bumped on award ticket?


"Andy P. Jung" spam@yourownrisk wrote in message
news:saV2c.11697$fD2.950@lakeread02...
I have a DL Award Ticket from MSY-DFW-LAX-TPE and I have a 12 hour layover
in LAX on March 17. Any chance of getting any freebies if I was to

volunteer
to get bumped? It is Spring Break season. Right now, there are only 15

seats
available for the MSY-DFW segment on a CRJ 700 and 25 seats for the

DFW-LAX
segment on an MD88. I would love to fly First Class on a 762 to ATL and
Business on a 777 to LAX.


--
Andy P. Jung
Metairie, Louisiana U.S.A.
http://www.JungWorld.com/

To reply via e-mail, please visit my web site.



I was voluntarily bumped twice on one free economy points ticket YVR - BKK
with Canadian Airlines.

I received one round trip anywhere in their system and an upgrade to
business class on the first bump. Then, holding a business 'free ticket'
three days later, I was bumped again and was given another system-wide
business points ticket. Awesome!

Treb


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Old March 9th, 2004, 10:42 AM
Ulf Kutzner
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gerald schrieb:

I have been bumped in FRA or MUC (even involuntaried?) to IAD 4 or 5
times on UA with a legal seat in C using an upgrade.

I have never been UG to F, and was once given the choice of renting a
room for the night(my cost), or flying back through CDG, all in Y.


What is "UG to F"?

Regards, ULF
  #9  
Old March 9th, 2004, 01:25 PM
gerald
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UpGrade to First. Most first class ticket codes are either F or J.

On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 10:42:39 +0100, Ulf Kutzner
wrote:

gerald schrieb:

I have been bumped in FRA or MUC (even involuntaried?) to IAD 4 or 5
times on UA with a legal seat in C using an upgrade.

I have never been UG to F, and was once given the choice of renting a
room for the night(my cost), or flying back through CDG, all in Y.


What is "UG to F"?

Regards, ULF


 




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