<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Beckles:
From the website:
Effective January 1, 2003, Dividend Miles members will not receive miles or segment credit toward Preferred status for tickets purchased in H, K, V, Q and L nonrefundable fare classes.
http://www.usairways.com/dividendmil...guidelines.htm
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The key thing isn't the word "nonrefundable" it's the list of fare classes. Everything in those fare classes can be safely assumed to be non-refundable. If it turns out to be refundable (as apparently happens on rare occassions) then you get a "bonus". But the converse is not true -- things in other fare classes cannot be assumed to be refundable -- they often are not.
Optimists are hanging on this wording to mean that they are planning a serious revision of the fare structure and just forgot to announce it.
I don't think so -- a serious revision would eliminate 3/4 of the fare classes.