In 94 I was at O-hare waiting for our flight back to Manchester with American.
There was another flight going to MAN 2 hours later and American put out a tannoy announcment for volunteers to take the later flight in return for a $300 discount off their next American flight (with no strings attached). Not great I know but better than nothing.
I travel infrequently and thought I wouldn't take advantage of the offer so didn't volunteer.
Our take off time comes and goes and we are still sat at the gate. Turns out our captian failed to show up and we had to wait 2 hours for a replacement.
We pulled into our gate at MAN next to, you've guessed it, the later AA flight that had arrived a good while before us.
Oh wel.......