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Old Dec 7, 2008 | 10:17 am
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Originally Posted by pshuang
I can see the close-in award fees (which don't make much sense as a service fee since it doesn't take more effort for the customer service agent to ticket you for tomorrow than for 15 days from now) as an attempt to reduce the profitability of resold flight award redemptions.
The fees could also be in place simply because customers are willing to pay them to avoid the typically higher near-term fares.
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