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Giving up your seat for money
"tim....." wrote in message ... "Sharx35" wrote in message news:OxqZk.2232$si6.1918@edtnps83... wrote in message ... On Dec 1, 8:11 pm, chithanh119 wrote: You are standing in the checking in queue and someone from the airline calls out that they need 2/3/4 or whatever number of people to give up their seats. They offer those people a hotel for the night and X amount of money. I was wondering if anyone has ever accepted this and what did they received for the inconvenience? I've never had the opportunity to accept such an offer, mainly due to time restrictions, but I'm well up for a deal like that on my forthcoming trip $250 for giving up a seat on COEx about 15 years ago. Was put on a UAEx flight that left about 45 minutes later. $250 for giving up a seat on America Worst. Was then put on a Southwest flight that left a few hours later. As the airlines did not an interline agreement the people being bumped were given a check to pay for their airfare on Southwest. By the way I only paid $139 for the flight with taxes and fees. Twice on SkyWest, once for UAEx and once for DLcont I almost got $500 for giving up my seat on flight that was overweight. On the first flight there were a number misconnects, so they did not need anyone. On the second flight they once needed two volunteers and so they used a mother/daughter combo. I however did get 500 or 1000 FF miles on DL from the nice gate agent. Also several other times I had the opportunity to give up my seat on commuter flights with Skywest that were overweight, but for one reason or another I did not. i will consider this if I am going home, as figure this just extends my vacation. Also I would rather miss a day or two of work than a day or two of my vacation. M. Graham It's also a good excuse: even the grouchiest of bosses has to understand that if one gets bumped they obviously can't be back to work in time. No need for boss to know that one VOLUNTEERED to be bumped!! I thought that the US rule was they you always have to volunteer. They keep on upping the ante until they get enough people tim Could be, Tim. I've only flown from Canadian airports and have never been involved in bumping. |
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Giving up your seat for money
In message "tim....."
was claimed to have wrote: I thought that the US rule was they you always have to volunteer. They keep on upping the ante until they get enough people Google for "involuntary bump" -- It does happen and there is legally requires compensation. |
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Giving up your seat for money
"chithanh119" skrev i meddelandet ... You are standing in the checking in queue and someone from the airline calls out that they need 2/3/4 or whatever number of people to give up their seats. They offer those people a hotel for the night and X amount of money. I was wondering if anyone has ever accepted this and what did they received for the inconvenience? I've never had the opportunity to accept such an offer, mainly due to time restrictions, but I'm well up for a deal like that on my forthcoming trip Not exactly for money but I was offered a seat in the cockpit (MD80 and FRA) |
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Giving up your seat for money
"Lennart Petersen" wrote in message ... "chithanh119" skrev i meddelandet ... You are standing in the checking in queue and someone from the airline calls out that they need 2/3/4 or whatever number of people to give up their seats. They offer those people a hotel for the night and X amount of money. I was wondering if anyone has ever accepted this and what did they received for the inconvenience? I've never had the opportunity to accept such an offer, mainly due to time restrictions, but I'm well up for a deal like that on my forthcoming trip Not exactly for money but I was offered a seat in the cockpit (MD80 and FRA) That sounds like one hell of a deal. Usually one can't buy those seats for ANYTHING. |
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Giving up your seat for money
"chithanh119" ...
You are standing in the checking in queue and someone from the airline calls out that they need 2/3/4 or whatever number of people to give up their seats. They offer those people a hotel for the night and X amount of money. If you've got the time, go for it. We volunteered once on an ASA flight to Asheville. They put us on a later flight to Tri-Cities, drove us by private van to Asheville the same day, and gave us vouchers for a free R/T anywhere in their system, which we did not use until they almost expired. Take the money, if its decent. |
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On Dec 2, 10:11*am, chithanh119
wrote: You are standing in the checking in queue and someone from the airline calls out that they need 2/3/4 or whatever number of people to give up their seats. They offer those people a hotel for the night and X amount of money. I was wondering if anyone has ever accepted this and what did they received for the inconvenience? I've never had the opportunity to accept such an offer, mainly due to time restrictions, but I'm well up for a deal like that on my forthcoming trip -- chithanh119 'Vacation in vietnam beach resort' (http://www.waytovietnam.com/resort.asp) | 'Victoria Sapa Tour Package' (http://www.waytosapa.com/tour_list_V...ackages_6.html) | 'Mekong excursion' (http://www.waytomekong.com) http://www.tourdulichvietnam.com |
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Giving up your seat for money
On Dec 1, 8:11 pm, chithanh119
wrote: You are standing in the checking in queue and someone from the airline calls out that they need 2/3/4 or whatever number of people to give up their seats. They offer those people a hotel for the night and X amount of money. I was wondering if anyone has ever accepted this and what did they received for the inconvenience? I've never had the opportunity to accept such an offer, mainly due to time restrictions, but I'm well up for a deal like that on my forthcoming trip -- chithanh119 'Vacation in vietnam beach resort' (http://www.waytovietnam.com/resort.asp) | 'Victoria Sapa Tour Package' (http://www.waytosapa.com/tour_list_V...ackages_6.html) | 'Mekong excursion' (http://www.waytomekong.com) Hey there I have a friend that often books flights on United at the last minute, if their online reservations system will not allow him to select a seat for the flight. He does this with the hope that are no no-shows and they need volunteers. His success rate has been fairly slim, but on one occasion he did a vohcure for several hundred dollars. I guess he missed the first call for volunteers and they ended up increased the compensation. This first offer was only a few hundred, while their second offer over double that amount. He of course does this only when he has the time and can fly out to a destination a day or two in advance of his meetings. M.M |
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Not exactly for money but I was offered a seat in the cockpit (MD80 and
FRA) That sounds like one hell of a deal. Usually one can't buy those seats for ANYTHING. Once apon a time, before 9/11, when I did my first flight, sitting in a nearly empty BA plane from Frankfurt to London and looked ready to bolt for the exit, a friendly flight attendend asked me wether I'd like to come into the cocpit for takeoff. It's a good way to calm anxies passangers, she claimed. The fool I was, I declined Those were the days... |
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Giving up your seat for money
Passed it up twice, both times because I *had* to be on the other end
for business reasons before the next available flight. One of those times, Delta had overbooked by five passengers CVG-CDG and by the time I boarded, they still needed a couple of volunteers, even though the ante was up to $1k, hotel room, and free seat on the next available flight. The other time, Southwest had to raise to a free RT voucher, a s fre hundred cash, free seat on the next plane out, and hotel room in order to escape their predicament. I would have taken their offer on one or two other occasions but wasn't quick enough when they made the announcement. I haven't encountered an overbooking/bumping situation on Southwest in the last few years, just standby people failing to get onto a particular flight. *Did* once see a young couple flying standby who really, really had to get somewhere for some family matter, whereupon some people who overheard this offered to give up their seats. I seem to recall that the gate agent rewarded this gesture of samaritanism in some small nice way even though she didn't have to. I've never seen or heard of a reason not to take the airline's offer at face value or doubt that they'll deliver. Just make sure of two things: (1) That they *confirm* you on a subsequent a flight that serves your purposes, right then and there. Standby is a crapshoot. and (2) That the consequences at your destination, such as change fees for rental car or hotel, nonrefundable tour tickets, don't bite too hard. I've read that some business-type hotels have gotten really snaky about changes made in your reservation without the amount of advance notice called for in the fine print, for instance. (If such businesses balk at what you need to do, or threaten to bill you for it, push back nicely but resolutely, of course.) Here are the regs for what they *have* to do: http://airconsumer.ost.dot.gov/publi...tm#overbooking Other than that, it's a simple negotiation to see what the market will bear, as new as "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (well, thousandaire anyway) and as old as the village marketplace... Cheers, --Joe |
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