NorthWest Airline vouchers expiring. Don't want to lose them.

NorthWest Airline vouchers expiring. Don't want to lose them.

I have a pair of Northwest airline vouchers that the airline gave me
for volunteering to be bumped on a flight. They are good for up to 1
year. The 1 year mark is coming up but there is no way I can travel
this year. Anybody expierence on how to extend them or any other ideas
so I don't lose the credit?

Re: NorthWest Airline vouchers expiring. Don't want to lose them.

"jillyfish" <javakj1@msn . com > wrote:

> I have a pair of Northwest airline vouchers that the airline gave me
> for volunteering to be bumped on a flight. They are good for up to 1
> year. The 1 year mark is coming up but there is no way I can travel
> this year. Anybody expierence on how to extend them or any other ideas
> so I don't lose the credit?

Buy a ticket somewhere, up to 11 months in the future. As I recall, you
don't have to travel before the vouchers expire, only purchase a ticket.

Re: NorthWest Airline vouchers expiring. Don't want to lose them.

I had thought of that but it says that travel is suppose to commence
before the 1 year mark, which is coming up soon.

Re: NorthWest Airline vouchers expiring. Don't want to lose them.

jillyfish wrote:
> I have a pair of Northwest airline vouchers that the airline gave me
> for volunteering to be bumped on a flight. They are good for up to 1
> year. The 1 year mark is coming up but there is no way I can travel
> this year. Anybody expierence on how to extend them or any other ideas
> so I don't lose the credit?
>

The vouchers aren't transferable, are they? If they were, you could
give them to someone else, and you'd have the satisfaction of knowing
that somebody is getting a free trip from Northwest.

If you're stuck with them, then you need to get creative. Think of
someplace in the country that you don't like. Go to your fridge and
pull out something that you're not really sure you'd want to eat. (I'm
extrapolating from my last flight on United -- they don't serve anything
until it's old enough to defend itself. NW might be better.) Take the
stale food, go to the closest elementary school one night, hand your
voucher over to the janitor, and ask if you can sit in a fifth grade
seat. Pull your seat up so it's 2" from the seat in front of you,
unwrap the questionable food, and try to eat it with plastic silverware
while contemplating what it would be like to do this for two or three
hours and then arrive wherever it is you don't want to be. Once you've
had enough, push your seat back, get up, thank the janitor, and ask him
where to toss the food. You'll go home with no second thoughts about
the vouchers.

Louis