How To Get The Most Money And Perks If You Get Bumped From A Flight
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- Опубликовано: 23 окт 2017
- Scott Keyes of Scott's Cheap Flights loves getting bumped on a flight because it puts him in a great spot for negotiating a deal. Here he explains how to get the most out of getting bumped. Following is a transcript of the video.
Scott Keyes: I love getting bumped from flights. And the reason why I love getting bumped from flights is it puts you in an amazing bargaining position.
My name is Scott Keyes. I'm the CEO and co-founder of Scott's Cheap Flights.
You know, especially after the recent news controversy, that really tough to watch videos from that United flight, airlines want to do whatever they can to avoid being in the news for that. And so they are much more willing, especially nowadays, to say, rather than just give you $250 voucher they'll go up to $500. They’ll go up to six, eight, $1,000 really quick. And not only can you get a lot more money, whether in terms of actual refund or voucher from the airlines for being bumped for volunteering, you can also negotiate other things.
So, if I get bumped from my flight back to Portland tomorrow, I'm going to say, “Okay. I'll do it. I want $1,000 travel credit. I also would like to be put on business class or first class on the next flight to Portland that actually get on, and how about some lounge passes in the meantime so I can hang out and eat and drink while I'm waiting for that flight.”
Believe you me, they will, they'll play ball if you start negotiating, especially if they're really pressed They have, like, “We need 5 people to volunteer and nobody's getting up to volunteer.” You can be in a really good bargaining position.
I can get a flight two hours later, get $1,000 for it. I'll hang out. I’ll have a beer in the bar, it’ll be great, and I'll get home a couple hours later, and be $1,000 richer for it. One of the things that I'll be sure to do, let’s say I volunteer but they actually need two more volunteers as well and they keep having to ratchet up the price.
I'll tell them, “Look. I'm not doing this unless I get what the other people get.” So maybe they don't get two more volunteers until they get to $500 voucher. I'll tell them, “Look. That’s what I want too.”
Even once you've already kind of put yourself out there make sure you're getting the most money possible and return.
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As a frequent flyer, I can knowingly say this is horseshit
So that United incident is still recent news?
To bad I live in Canada, this never happened for me....
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Way to many nice people up tbere
That's because AirCanada are criminals....lol
Nice
One time I was a standby passenger on a flight on American airlines from PHL to NAS and there was a family of 3 that got vouchers of $2,000! Of course I could not get on because I was a standby.
Smart.
Yeah, except the chances of this happening is in the millionths
Not if you fly Ryanair!
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Horseshit most they give you is money to cover hotel and food and the ticket back home but in a later time. How tf can u become a 1000 dollars richer back home you have to spend the money on a hotel if it's overnight.
That's if you miss your connection. last week I missed my connection home and they gave me a nice hotel room in Miami a dinner voucher, a breakfast voucher and a first class ticket on the next flight home. You just have to keep pushing, it works best if you fly American, Delta, United, or JetBlue.