That's been my experience. This winter the weather has been horrible in the northwest, and so several of my flights have been cancelled. And the airlines wouldn

That's been my experience. This winter the weather has been horrible in the northwest, and so several of my flights have been cancelled. And the airlines wouldn't give me anything since it was weather related. Whereas recently I volunteered to skip an overbooked flight, and ended up getting a free roundtrip ticket, meal vouchers, and a ticket on the next flight out.