As I hinted at earlier (yes, in the third person), my bump luck finally changed this past weekend. And this was only two days after I made a post complaining about how United doesn't seem to oversell anymore. Best of all, they were oversold by quite a bit and I was traveling with two friends,…
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Seems like your friends are good luck. You should travel with them more often. 🙂
Looking forward to hearing about your ORD stalker.
the standard offer nowadays is $400 regardless of the length of the delay incurred
I've seen this asserted on some of the FT forms, although there continue to be reports of people taking $600 bumps. Here's one today, for example: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/14096254-post159.html
And did you see this on twitter today thanking UA: "for helping me get through my day of traveling with my cat and getting me a simpler itinerary."
Sounds like more of moving people to the nonstop and not paying them anything for the bump.
When assigned to a middle seat (usually due to a last minute work assignment or change) I arrive early and, after checking the monitors, say to the gate agent, "I know there's no way I'll get upgraded, but when you do start clearing the OTHER elites, or before assigning standbys, could you transfer me one of their window or aisle seats". I'm *gold and it has worked about 20 times over the last 2 years.
Could it be that this was the old-school 747 brought out from the desert with fewer seats than the new 747?