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Old Dec 9, 2009 | 5:53 pm
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Originally Posted by sbm12
Regarding who pays and who gets credit I would bet on it being directly tied to the traveling passenger, regardless of the booking channel or what name is on the CC that processes the transaction. If J. Doe flies on a $2000 ticket purchased by T. Fan then J. Doe gets the credit for the spend. I don't know this for sure, but that's my bet.
That's what I figured. I'm sure you're right (this is how TWA did this when they had a similar scheme with their ff program).

I can understand why the traveler should receive the miles (they do the BIS time), but the fact that one can spend $30k on someone's else's travel and for the traveler to solely benefit just doesn't seem completely right to me...
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