Originally Posted by
amimac
Alaska flies nonstop between two city pairs that I need to travel for business. However, the company has a rule about how many company folks can be on any one flight at a time.
I think I can circumvent that rule if I book the flight using another carrier as the marketing carrier (say Delta), but making sure I'm flying Alaska metal. The manifest will say I'm on a Delta flight instead of an Alaska flight.
So two questions.
1. How can I actually go about doing this? Do I go to delta.com? Or an Expedia? Or something else?
2. What impact might this decision have if I'm MVP in terms of benefits. I believe it means that instead of a 48hr window for upgrade opportunity, I'm kind of limited to availability day of flight.
And when I say "I", I mean someone else.
Thanks!
what city pairs? Is it a place AS only serves once a day? If not take another AS flight. If you book at DL you probably have to wait until 24 hours to upgrade. If you do it at a site like expedia or orbitz it should actually let you do it at 48 hours. They will give you a confirmation code for AS and DL. You then go to my trips, add the trip with the AS code and then request upgrades. If it doesnt let you on the AS site call the mvp desk and get added to the list. And FWIW the manifest will probably say DL operated by AS and will have identical departure and arrival times. Not very hard for corporate travel people to figure out. They know all about code shares and stuff. Just book the AS flight since you are trying to circumvent rules. How do you know that this flight has the maximum number of company pax on it already? If I was already trying to break rules Id just book the AS flight and pretend I had no clue that the max number had been reached??
This is a policy that has always cracked me up. Companies limit this to a half dozen or so on one flight yet they have no problem using a shuttle or van to haul around 15 or 20 employees at a time. Its been proven time and time again that the shuttle van is way more likely do crash and cause injury on the roadway than a jet is likely to crash and cause injuries