When she complained to the airline, at first they offered her a voucher worth $650. When she refused it, there were phone calls back and forth,  until the ante was raised to the ten grand. Then the bumpee accepted.

Hey, why didn’t this ever happen to your old travel4seniors.com editor? I’ve been bumped from flights many times, but the best I got was a cheap room at the airport roach motel, coffee, doughnuts and the 5 am flight the next morning.