A WOMAN has revealed how she paid just £300 for her flight but managed to get £2,500 back.
Megan Keaveny, 30, said she took the huge sum of money after boarding her flight to Florida.
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A 30 year old New York broker was paid $3,000 (£2,800) by Delta to give up her place on a overbooked flight just before it took off from LaGuardia Airport last week.
Megan paid $358 (£300) to fly Delta from LaGuardia to West Palm Beach, Florida, according to CNBC Make It.
She said: “While we were boarding, a gate agent announced, ‘We need 22 people to get off this flight. We are offering $1,300 to all volunteers.”
She told her boyfriend and friends who were also on board that she would be willing to give up her spot for a whopping $2,000.
Moments later, after boarding the plane, the agent said the airline was willing to pay $2,500 to anyone willing to give up their seat.
After several passengers accepted and got off the offer, the agent increased the offer to $3,000.
“I almost broke my neck sprinting down the aisle,” Keaveny said.
She eventually flew to Fort Lauderdale on another flight and rented an Uber for $50 to take her to West Palm Beach.
Keaveny told CNBC Make It that she could probably have coughed up even more money for her rebooked flight to Fort Lauderdale, but declined because she was on a timeline.
“We could have done it again that day and made more money in LaGuardia‘ said Kevin.
Passengers on a recently overbooked flight were offered a whopping $10,000 (£8,200) if they moved on to a later flight.
Passenger Jason Aten, who was on board, tweeted: “On @Delta flight from GRR to MSP and they just offered $10,000 for people to give up their seats… Ten. Thousand. Dollars.”
It’s not even the first time – a woman in 2018 said she got a $10,000 travel voucher when she was got off the plane because it is overbooked.
Attorney and personal finance expert Erika Kullberg revealed exactly what to ask for when a airline kicks you off a flight†
Although overbooked flights are less frequent in the UK, a couple recently said they were departed from their TUI flight to Greece because it was overbooked.
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