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Oct 4, 2008 | 12:30 pm

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Originally Posted by Gandhi90s

I must live a charmed life. This has never happened to me in the year that I've been traveling on AA, using debit cards, credit cards and even direct bank account payments.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gandhi90s

I use a debit card 90% of the time. FWIW, my bank is Washington Mutual, now part of Chase. I have NEVER had a problem with buying AA tix. There is no hold placed when the transaction is authorized, and an actual charge shows up two days later on average.

How many tickets have you purchased in the past year on AA? 20, 30 max? Hardly a reliable sample size. Even if this is a systemic issue, I'm sure it's happening in far less than 1% of all transactions.