I lived in Hong Kong and was flying back to North America during Chinese New Year. Obviously the flight was overbooked and I was in no rush. I offered to be bumped three days in a row, and flew back home with $2000 US in my pocket and first class travel both ways. Thank you Cathay Pacific.
I once gave up my seat in an overbooked flight. The airline paid for my hotel accommodation and 2 meals plus I got a $400 travel voucher. I was in heaven and roamed around Boston that night; I even saw JFK Jr. in the popular seafood restaurant I had my dinner at. The restaurant was recommended by my Dad and that was the best way to start off my 2 week vacation in New Hampshire! Any time after that, if there was an overbooked flight, I'd jump at the chance to take another flight but never got that lucky again. Good times for sure.
*They all got places to go, people to see. I'm alone and depressed so I might as well make some bank on my situation.* Gawd Jeenie is such a mood😂 Btw I didnt know they did this...its so cool!! I'll be ready to give up going places and meeting people for this lol😂
@@QuinnWolfGod666 lol no worry they can all board the flight and then later Jeenie can pick up a Karen and throw her out the plane to make space😌...but what if too many people volunteer👀
Jeenie :- free massage , 1000 dollars , hotel room and first class ticket . me :- can't even negotiate an extra eggplant from the street vegetable vendor .
@@halazeisa : We don't need to change... It just means we have self respect and have concerns for others (negotiate with vendors).... I feel awful when people do this and wonder how.... For a minute I have a flash of beggars dressed well and doing this, and just because of clothes they call it business skills... Otherwise to me it's same as begging... I cannot even do a sales pitch in my work and I loose incentive for it... Feels so low... Why to intimidate others when you can educate and help people make their own choice.... It's like proverb: don't feed fish, but help catch them... We make people stable that way... Negotiation like this are not good for me at least... Below my dignity... If I feel people unreasonable, I walk away... If people cheat and I know they did... I just say 70 time 7.... That's the loss they will find in their future... But I don't bargain... I use my patience for people to experience their own karma... And I don't like to hit on other people's stomach / hard earnings.... Those are bad... Ten commandment: do not cover others goods...
Thanks you guys 🌷🌷 I dont literally want to negotiate an extra veggie, just regain my rights and stop other researchers from taking the ideas I am working on or come up with 😢 The mirror tip seems easy but challenging!
Thing is, before your flight, read up on the rules and benefits of "accepting" the offer. They're willing to negotiate up to certain amounts. Don't EVER take first offer.
@@vondahe well, in EU they are legally bound to give you at least 600 EUR plus hotel cost if they bump you to next day so anything below that is them trying to get out cheap
This happened to me! Flying alone from Heathrow to PIT. I joked and said I wanted a first class upgrade and they said "sure." I said I'm an American and my friends live 2 hours away I don't have anywhere to stay and they said "we're connected to a hotel." I said I already changed my money and they said "here's 24 hours worth of meal vouchers."
When I was in Europe there were signs saying something like, “if your flight is delayed more than 2 hours you’ll be reimbursed £400” and I honestly wished my flight would be delayed that long lol
I wish that was everywhere, I once had a delay more than 6 hours… for a 20 minute flight. There was a problem with the plane, so they had to fly someone in to fix it, then the plane was Abel to take off, and on its way to the airport I was at, it hit a freaking bird, so then they had to do a full safety inspection, due to the bird once it landed, then I was finally able to bord, and the time we spent on the plane wating for takeoff, was longer then the flight.
No but I know a person who flew from Europe to eastern Asia and due to multiple delays they got a voucher worth more than 1000 euros. The important thing is to always negotiate
The first time my sister traveled alone I told her to do this. She was bumped, got a $500 ticket voucher and still landed 30 min before her original flight. That voucher paid for her ticket to Hawaii a few months later. Win!!
My volunteer story goes like this: was at the gate at least an hour before my flight. Gate agent makes the overbooking announcement and I go up at the very first piddly offer. Gate agent thanked me and said to remain in the gate area until the flight took off. 1 minute before departure time she calls me back, says they don't need volunteers after all but had already given my seat to someone else. Had to call a supervisor because her computer didn't let her put me back on the flight. They held the plane for about 15 minutes while they were trying to sort that out. Then I walked onto the plane with my backpack to discover that I was placed in the middle seat of a bulkhead row. With no overhead space. While every other passenger stared at me (remember that they've all been waiting for ~15 minutes wondering why they haven't closed the door yet). I've never volunteered again since.
Truly represented! I once volunteered to take an evening flight from another area airport instead of my morning flight. The attendant was so relieved to have a solution (for a family that would otherwise be split on two flights), and I got a $400 credit toward another flight (the cost of the flight was about $250, I think, and that was refunded), was taken by taxi to the other airport, given food vouchers, had a taxi waiting to take me to the hotel at the destination, and a guaranteed delivery of my luggage (which was already on the original flight's plane) to the hotel. I felt like everyone won. The family got to travel together, I got my next vacation flight paid for, and the crew was able to resolve an issue at the gate. I'd do it again.
As a travel operations college student, I am laughing at this scene since our professor also said how this occurrences is like an auction when there is an overbooking and how you’re trying to bring a good deal to your passengers.
This happened to me flying to LA for VidCon though I didn't volunteer I was just selected at random knowing they wouldn't get volunteers. Thankfully the flight was only a few hours later and American Airlines put me in business class for my troubles. It ended up being the best vacation of my life so far. Beach, convention, great food, Disneyland and business class. It was a blast.
Travel tip: when you get your boarding pass, *make sure you have a seat assignment* on it. On one of my trips I thought I was all set until boarding started and I realized my pass had no seat number. Later I realized I was probably overbooked. It turned out well, as I got bumped into business class for an 8-hour flight. But still, I was shocked to realize that when I thought I had jumped through all their hoops, there was still one left.
@@user92248 Where you get the actual seat assignment on a boarding pass. My boarding pass seemed to tell me I had a seat (boarding pass in hand = permission to board the plane), but not really. It was just permission to enter the gate area, and THEN see the people at the gate about a seat.
It is more than 20 years since I worked at an airline, but most of the time this would happen back then was when there was a late aircraft change. Then they hadn't had time to figure out the load and balances so the boarding pass would be empty. This would most often be figured out before departure and the boarding pass reader at the gate would actually print the seat assignment on the boarding card when it was read.
Same for meals. I got my veg meal in the connecting flight but the next flight didn't carry one for me. Check the meal on your connecting flights boarding pass too.
Tbh the only times that happened to me was with flights departing the US. All my other flights, in Europe, Asia and N. Africa, I’ve had my seats assigned at check-in already, while in the US I got my seats at the final gate before departure.
We offered to be bumped off our flight home, but we ended up getting on the flight but bumped up to first class. I’d never been on first class before, & the flight attendants were so nice & really made an effort to make sure that we felt special & got all the attention they could give us. I think they kind of appreciated the fact that we weren’t dicks or snobs. It was a lot of fun.
Did this once for crew members who had to be on the flight - I saw them all waiting at the gate and saw what the gate agent was about to do. Walked up to her and asked what the max credit would be for my seat and when the next flight was. Got $800 credit and a flight out in 5 hours. The best part was when I used part of the credit for a trip, arrived at the airport and got a message from the airline that they were looking for volunteers - made another $600 and because I was at the airport ridiculously early (I'd planned to work in the lounge) they got me on an earlier flight. The gate agent on that earlier flight was confused as she saw I was a last minute pax but because the info was still updating she was like "you can board, but I'm just curious what the deal was" - she and her colleagues were laughing as I boarded and told me I should go play the lottery with luck like that. (and no - I never get that kind of deal haha)
Jeenie: They all got places to go, people to see. I'm alone and depressed might as well make some ✨bank on my situation ✨ Me: classic queen 👑😌🤙 Edit: thx so much for the likes
Last week we were on an overbooked flight by 20 people! The vouchers started at 1000 and we volunteered as a party of 8 but sadly, all 29 didn’t show up so that was a real bummer. It sucks because all I can think about is where I could’ve gone.
The lady over the intercom throughout Jeenies requests: - Oh fine guess I better put my customer service face on - *reasonable* - Oml ok fine - Ok chill hon don't push it-
I got an overbooked flight and then the next one was 14 days later. So much for $5K in CASH and an extra long holiday... oh yeah, and I ditched school to
When I travel home from California after dropping my cousin off from the summer I always accept the flight voucher to be bumped. I don't care to get home and I'm traveling alone so I never mind. The staff is super sweet about it and always grateful.
I was on a flight back from Puerto Rico on a Sunday and all the vacationers had to be at work. This is exactly what happened but they gave a free flight to any destination the airline went. Guy got a ticket to Paris, a hotel and food voucher. Sweet.
I lost a day off a Vacation that way. But, I was given enough to reimburse me for the night I *wasn't* staying at my own hotel, an upgrade on the next flight, a juicey travel voucher, and a nice room at the attached airport hotel with dinner. It was an overbooked international flight. They were so incredibly nice and accommodating. I just started my vacation *that* way instead. I always at least hear them out now, if I'm not flying for work.
Jeenie, you’re one of my favourite people on youtube. Just a natural entertainer and so naturally funny. Just your expressions have me laughing. As I watch these videos I can’t help but think: “I wish I was friends with Jeenie. Her personality would just bring fun to almost anything”. Plus you are such a talented story teller and so expressive you could have been in theater. I hope you clean up with youtube, but honestly you’re funnier than script writers for SNL or night shows. If you get bored of youtube one day, anything you do will surely just be a new beginning to more success.
That happened in one of my fights (ofc it was just from TX to LA) I was with a friend and her mom to go to a concert and they told us the fight was overbooked and asked if we would changed to a later flight and since the concert was the next day and we had time, we agreed, and they gave us like a $300 voucher to each and got to enter the plane quicker. We really didn't ask for anything the just offered it, and I would do it again if it occured.
I haven't been offered often, but that time around easter I was thinking "is this a Texas cattle auction or a boarding operation?" 😂 Good stuff Jeenie!
I remember when same case happened with me. My flight attendant was very sweet so when i asked her for a hotel they gave me a luxury room in a five star hotel with premium buisness class upgrade ticket and unlimited food and beverages. I was really happy with this and whenever i use to travel i pray to god that i get this opportunity again and again
This probably just happens with the elite airlines, US airlines like to deal with the situation differently from all of the videos of them kicking out passengers from planes 😅
The only time I witnessed this, the travel credits started and stayed at $600. If only modifying my hotel and car rental bookings had been free-of-charge or even possible... That said, only a few minutes before the expected departure time, the desk called any passenger that hadn't been assigned their seats yet. It was one couple, and myself. I got to the desk first, but the couple got their boarding passes first. I found it mildly annoying, but no big deal. Once they left, the clerk told me that since they were overbooked, the only remaining seat was in first class. "Is that ok for you?" she asked with a grin. Needless to say I enjoyed that flight.
To honest, I'm low maintenance travel. A hotel (if next day) and upgrade is enough. These poor attendants did not overbook, the airline did, so making it ease on them will almost guarantee you will be remembered and paid attention to when needing something.
I gave up my seat once (had to change planes in France), was rebooked to a different STRAIGHT flight to Adam AND got a eur 500 flight voucher I never used 😂.
