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Old Nov 17, 2009 | 9:14 am
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Originally Posted by belynch
Thanks for the feedback. :-:

Just curious -- has anyone that works for the organization ever attempted to do this? It's a royal pain in the . The GA's are never at the gate 2 hours prior to the flight and when they do show up invariably they tell you "there's 082502384023483234 elites already on the list, there's no sense in doing this, so I'm not going to bother."
I usually add companions on all segments at the ticket counter at my point of origin. Never had a problem with the agent refusing to do so. I once knew the key for companions (was GG PLC or something like that), but I haven't needed to educate anyone lately.
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