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Old Jan 26, 2009, 4:01 pm
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gaugeguy
 
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Originally Posted by MikeMpls
Chicken feed. This is an insult.

Between the two of us, my wife & I did 17 redeposits/reissues last years. This would leave us with 13 x $100 in fees or (more likely) tremendous amounts of phone time wasted until just the right itins become available.

Aslo, what happens when the reservation contains tickets for non-Platinum members or (for example) for a family of 5 but only two exemptions are available?
I agree with you 100%. It does seem like the masses complaining are helping some though. Just last week I took the wife and kids to Disneyworld. I upgraded all of them with miles. My daughters ticket had to be re-issued 3 times for all of the segments to be upgraded. That alone is one of the reasons for me maintaining platinum. (Or was...)
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