In the mid 90s my wife and I were returning from a few days in Amsterdam with KLM Cityhopper. We were in the departure area at Schipol awaiting our flight to Bristol (BRS) when a ground hostess came along asking for volunteers to be 'bumped' as the flight was overbooked.
We asked her what arrangements would be made for us if we agreed. She said that we would be paid 325 Dutch Guilders each (around £125 then), we could have a meal in the first class restaurant at Schipol, we would then be flown to Brussels with Sabena before being transferred onto another Sabena flight to BRS. We would arrive at BRS about three hours after we had been scheduled to with KLM.
We snapped her arm off and coud not understand why no-one else seemed interested.
She escorted us to the first class restaurant (the onlydownside was we only had about 3/4 hour there but the waiter, knowing who was paying, made sure we had the best of everything including a bottle of Moet et Chandon - which we could not finish unfortunately), and returned to count out a total of 650 Guilders in bank notes at the table - we had some odd looks from other patrons.
The arrangements went perfectly and we did arrive back at BRS just under three hours late with our bellies filled with some excellent refreshment and a total of £250 the richer.