Not long ago my daughter was waiting for a flight for which she had a ticket where the airline overbooked. They started making announcements offering free tickets to anyone who would agree to take a later flight to Indianapolis. When they worked up to a claimed ticket voucher for return flights "anywhere in the United States" she took the deal. It got her in to us a few hours later, but she's a poor college student and deal sounded good to her.
Recently, after sending a resume and video of some of her work, she received a request from a cruise line to come interview and audition in Los Angeles to be an entertainer on one of their boats. She figured this was a perfect opportunity to use that voucher for a free round trip anywhere in the United States. Her dates for the audition were flexible and she started trying to make the reservations.
It turns out the ticket from US Air is a "restricted" class coach seat. There are so many restrictions, and basically they restrict but a few seats per plane for such seats. So while there are lots of flights, with lots of empty seats, US Air will not exchange this voucher for a trip anywhere in the continental United States for a flight to Los Angeles and back.
So if you are on a US Air flight and they are making announcements that sound like a good deal for a voucher on a flight, don't believe it. The usefulness of the voucher is so restricted as to make it of almost no value. I'd just insist on staying on the flight you are already booked on.
"A man never drinks anything that a plant lives in" --DBone (A Real Man).
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