United passenger scores $10,000 travel voucher

A passenger who was bumped off a full flight has scored the maximum prize — a $10,000 travel voucher.

United raised the amount airport employees could pay a bumped passenger to $10,000 last year after criticism over the violent dragging of a man off a full flight in Chicago.

A spokesman for United Airlines confirmed Friday that a passenger got the big voucher “per our company policy.” He declined to name the person, but Allison Preiss of Washington, D.C., described how she was rewarded for giving up her seat on a Thursday flight in a series of tweets.