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I pulled a cheap stunt like this when I used to live in El Paso..

An airline put a full back-page ad in the El Paso Times..
“Round trip to Los Angeles only 79.95”

I read all the fine print, it said it was on a space-available basis. You would show up at the airport and sign up for your flight, you might get on and you might not. But if you were bumped you got a goodly chunk of airline miles.

Well, I got to LA and turned it into a game, I would check out how booked up a flight was and then turn up and be bumped for a full fare passenger...and collect my miles.

This went on for quite some time and I ended up with an unbelievable amount of miles...it turned out the Vegas airport was ideal for this opportunity... I was spending more time in Vegas than Wayne Newton!

I flew all over the place New York then back to CA..then back home for a rest and NY again... my friends in NY were sick of the sight of me..lol.

At almost every layover I managed to pull down more miles by being bumped off of a few flights.

It turned into a quest...I traveled a million miles and ate a million packs of free peanuts...