New York Post
US · 2 hrs ago
Airline offers flyers jaw-dropping prize to give up seats on overbooked flight: ‘I’d be up there in five seconds’
Make them an offer they can’t refuse. Nothing is worse than finally making it to your gate, waiting to board a plane, only to find out the flight is overbooked and the airline is looking for takers to give up seats. As much of a pain as that scenario is, a thousand-dollar prize might change some minds. Airlines are known to overbook flights to prevent empty seats since oftentimes flyers miss connecting flights, make last-minute flight changes or simply don’t board the flight in time before takeoff. That seemed to be the case for a recent flight leaving Miami International Airport. In a now-viral TikTok video posted by user @kelli.palacios, a gate agent for what supposedly looks like American Airlines, although it’s not confirmed, is heard on the intercom asking a crowd of plane passengers
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