Originally Posted by
trinity_in_texas
The sabre system will cancel a duplicate reservation in the system, whether it's purchased or not. Additionaly, you cannot use an EVIP unless the tkt is actually purchased. The system recognizes these things. I'd suggest you call the EP desk if you want to do something like this in the future.
To be clear it wasn't a duplicate reservation, it was one, it stayed the same PNR throughout.
I did phone the EP desk, they upfared me to N and then upgraded me to C (by applying the EVIPs), and then placed the PNR back on hold. (So I could verify with the wife)
So clearly it was not ticketed and apparently the EVIP had been applied as I was in C. I even picked our business class seats in the held reservation on the web.
However when I went back to purchase the same PNR, it downgraded me to O during the purchase.