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BI<\/a>: Philadelphia fashion photographer capitalizes on constantly oversold route, extends Italian vacation several days and makes over $3K in flight vouchers while getting free hotels and food<\/span><\/p>\n Let me tell you how envious I was feeling when reading this story.\u00a0 This girl managed to accomplish something that I\u2019ve tried to do in the past to no success, and on a scale that I could only dream about.\u00a0 Having the flexibility and lack of commitments enough to where she could just say fuck it and stay in Italy for as many days as American Airlines constantly kept overselling their Naples to Philadelphia route, and volunteering to take the bump; this is the stuff that my dreams used to be made of.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve actually never been able to accomplish this even once before, even at the piddly domestic level.\u00a0 Even if there\u2019s been opportunities to volunteer my position for even a nominal, $300-400 flight credit, either I\u2019ve been beaten to the punch or my flexibility wasn\u2019t prohibitive enough for me to go for it, and I\u2019ve always sat in terminals or on flights, fantasizing over the what-if, I could accomplish it, and get some large amounts of house money in which I could then parlay into bigger and better trips, or even some first-class accommodations instead.<\/span><\/p>\n One holiday a long time ago, I booked on Thanksgiving day itself, thinking that being a holiday, and before the all-important Thanksgiving Dinner time, I would be a shoe-in for a credit scenario; frankly, I didn\u2019t want to make the trip in the first place, and I figured if there was ever a chance I would get to reach for the stars and take a shot at one of my travel fantasies, this would be the opportunity.<\/span><\/p>\n However, it\u2019s apparent that the maniacal traveling is done the day before, or the Sunday before, and when it comes to Thanksgiving Day itself, fuck, I could\u2019ve stood-by for the flight and made it on the flight, it was so desolate, but instead, I was the schmuck who paid for a full fare, thinking it would be oversold, I could forfeit my seat, get $500, and be absolved of having to travel up for a holiday.<\/span><\/p>\n All the times mythical wife and I have traveled internationally, we\u2019ve always talked about what we\u2019d do if the opportunity ever presented itself, but usually one or both of us were working too stringent of jobs to risk missing, especially since remote work never really existed for our lines of business until COVID, or we had to be cognizant of animal care, or some other reason, so we never really had a serious shot at cashing in on this ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n And now that we have kids, this dream is basically non-existent anymore, unless the kids were already with other family, they weren\u2019t burnt out yet, and were demanding that we tried for it, which I don\u2019t imagine is going to be happening any time soon seeing as how we travel on airplanes maybe twice a year, if even that.<\/span><\/p>\n But yeah, I\u2019m so jelly of this girl for what she was able to accomplish.\u00a0 Not that I\u2019m particularly a fan of American Airlines, but I would gladly take their money if they were offering it up in $1,200 increments to forfeit my seat, and feed and house me.\u00a0 If I were in her situation, I would do the exact same thing, and be at the airport praying for another oversold notice, and be jumping up and down raising my hand to be the people to continuously volunteer to give up my seat.\u00a0 I can only try to not be in denial of how much I\u2019d like to live vicariously through her freedom and independence in these circumstances, and the amount of free travel she\u2019ll be able to eke out of $3,550.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BI: Philadelphia fashion photographer capitalizes on constantly oversold route, extends Italian vacation several days and makes over $3K in flight vouchers while getting free hotels and food Let me tell you how envious I was feeling when reading this story.\u00a0 This girl managed to accomplish something that I\u2019ve tried to do in the past to … Continue reading This girl is living my dream and I\u2019m so jelly<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79,29,65,166],"class_list":["post-50132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cashmoney","tag-fantasy","tag-travel","tag-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50135,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50132\/revisions\/50135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}