A passenger in a recently Delta flight He is laughing to the bank.
Traveling before or after a holiday is always agitated for flyers and airlines. However, a traveler was in the right place at the right time when the Popular airline He offered him $ 3,000 to change flights.
This is what happened exactly, as shared in Reddit: “I was reserved on a flight from Delta from Chicago O’Hare to Seattle, 7:50 am departure. Monday after Easter Easter, a maximum maximum travel day.”
The Lucky Air Traveler continued writing: “I approached with zone 2, I grabbed my seat in row 10 and settled.”
“Then, a door agent approaches the front of the first class, without a microphone, without great ad, and casually falls what sounded like a travel myth:” We are looking for two volunteers to disembark due to fuel rebalancing problems. ” “” “” “” “” “.
It sounds almost too good to be true, but Delt was serious.
“I barely prosecuted it before my hand was in the air. You do not doubt. It was niece that any other person hit me. Another passenger raised his own just after,” the steering wheel added.
They wrote in the thread that Delta delivered two coupons: one was a loan of $ 2,000 and the other was $ 1,000, since “Delta’s team cannot issue more than $ 2K at once, so they divided it.”
Credit is not limited to Delta’s flight credit: it could also become real gift cards to the main retailers. The passenger was obviously delighted to be richer $ 3000 and have more time with his family before taking another flight home.
While this person, although it was only one of the two people fortunate on that flight, it turns out that a change of team occurred that day, in which Delta sacrificed $ 1,700 to 22 passengers who voluntarily obtained flight.
If you make the calculations, it is $ 43,400 that Delta was disbursed due to problems on your plane.
“I always thought it addresses, you are locked and done. But equipped, if Delta hits an operational problem (such as fuel balance) and still needs volunteers? That window reopens again, and if you are fast, you can win big, the excited trip.” The excited. “The excited.” The excited. “The excited.
Some lodgers in the thread shared their similar experience.
“They sacrificed me $ 3k. I forgot which card (s) I obtained, but one of them allows you to use it for PayPal. So I configured them as my information from PayPal and I paid my wife, who deposited it in our bank account.
I saw it once at DTW (Detroit Airport), I think in about $ 500, I think. He jumped at $ 1000 just before boarding. They went up and offered $ 1500 for one more, the Beind type shouted $ 1800 and touched it for $ 1800, “intervened in another commentator.
