LAX-LHR VS 6/11 maybe bumped what to do?

Although a few years ago, my best 'bump' was from EWR when our flight was over sold, very few people were volunteering to give up their seat. After a little while the offer went up to 2 free flights to any route on the network....needless to say we jumped at the offer and thn just went back to Philly to my sister-in-law's for 20 hours

[honey lamb]

I think you pay taxes and charges) and it is subject to availability. That said, ours were a real treat and allowed us to play a game of "where should we go that we wouldn't have otherwise gone".

When Aer John won the inaugural Flying Club Swingers Golf competition ours too were a real treat. They were UC tickets and we asked if we could go to Sydney and were much surprised when we were told we could even with a stopover. We (or rather, I) had been prepared to stand the cost of the HKG-SYD leg. They made concessions for us as the deal had been not during school holidays but he was still at school. Fortunately for us Irish school holidays start earlier than the UK ones so we promised to depart before then and we didn't have to pay taxes and charges y)

we jumped at the offer and thn just went back to Philly to my sister-in-law's for 20 hours

The "price" we paid for our Reward vouchers was a 2 hour delay and flying in to EWR rather than JFK. Bit of a bargain.

If you get to the airport and are bumped, just ask for a transfer to BA

If you get to the airport and are bumped, just ask for a transfer to BA

Why seek to add to your disappointment?

Because it means he will have a seat with his 88 year old mother and that is not a disapointment

Because it means he will have a seat with his 88 year old mother and that is not a disapointment

There is still no guarentee on getting seats together though !

And that depends on their being seats available for VS to buy from BA too. Just because there are alternative carriers does not mean they have seats.

Because it means he will have a seat with his 88 year old mother and that is not a disapointment

Fair point...my somewhat flippant response was based on reading your posts as being related to the generic nature of the bumping discussion rather than specific issue the OP faced, which is now history.

[Neil]

Because it means he will have a seat with his 88 year old mother and that is not a disapointment

Fair point...my somewhat flippant response was based on the generic nature of the bumping discussion rather than the OP's issue which is now history.

Quite, we are getting in to a very hypothetical situation discussion now.

Quite, we are getting in to a very hypothetical situation discussion now.

I'll get me coat....

I am hoping that the OP comes back to this thread to update us on the outcome.

[honey lamb]

I am hoping that the OP comes back to this thread to update us on the outcome.

Erm, he did! It's on the first page about halfway down.

taxcut35 wrote:
Yep, I got bumped.

I am hoping that the OP comes back to this thread to update us on the outcome.

Erm, he did! It's on the first page about halfway down.

taxcut35 wrote:
Yep, I got bumped.

True, but it's a cliffhanger: what happened next?

Paul

(still looking for his coat)