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Old Nov 25, 2008 | 12:00 pm
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Originally Posted by sbm12
The latter, by far. With the former I have to buy a Y fare and hope for the upgrade. Otherwise I'm stuck with a very expensive coach seat. With the latter if I'm stuck in Y at least I didn't overpay for the luxury.
Originally Posted by dvs7310
At least on the routes I fly I've yet to see the co-pay be as much as the difference between the cheap fare in the full Y fare... the only thing I'm really giving up is the easy changeability.
Good, then I guess y'all agree that the co-pay system is actually a pretty good one when compared with the alternative...
It's unfortunate SkyTeam went with the alternative for this particular program. Perhaps intra-carrier co-pays would just be too complicated to process.
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