{"id":4129,"date":"2009-06-17T20:45:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T00:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2009-06-17T20:45:06","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T00:45:06","slug":"8-tips-for-scoring-free-airline-travel-vouchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2009\/06\/8-tips-for-scoring-free-airline-travel-vouchers\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Tips for Scoring Free Airline Travel Vouchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pic_100px\" title=\"welcome aboard\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/TV_airplane-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"welcome aboard\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Airlines like money and it turns out that the best way for airlines to make money is to ensure that there are as few empty seats on a plane as possible. When a person doesn\u2019t show up for a flight, the seat is left empty and an empty seat is a lost opportunity for revenue. As a result of this conundrum, airlines employ fancy statisticians to figure out how many seats the airline needs to overbook just to make up for the no-shows.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, those statisticians aren\u2019t fortune tellers and sometimes (okay, a lot of times), their figures are off. When the figures are off, it\u2019s still a better deal for the airline to give you a $300 travel voucher than it is to risk letting a seat fly empty.<\/p>\n<p>So, how can you cash in on all of this free travel? Here are tips to releasing your inner free-travel royalty:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.divinecaroline.com\/22240\/76398-eight-tips-scoring-free-airline\"><strong>Read it on Divine Caroline&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines like money and it turns out that the best way for airlines to make money is to ensure that there are as few empty seats on a plane as possible. When a person doesn\u2019t show up for a flight, the seat is left empty and an empty seat is a lost opportunity for revenue. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-stuff","category-travelog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}