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Old Jan 27, 2010 | 1:23 pm
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slowly
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Originally Posted by ni2mi2
You buy a coach ticket fully aware of what kind of service you get for that price. At the gate, the airline offers you a free upgrade and asks you to sit in the business class and even serves you a drink. Right before take-off, they realize they made a mistake and ask you to get the h*ll out and go back to coach. Now if you complain to the airline & on FT about the way you were treated, do you think it would be fair if I jumped in and said that you had a false sense of entitlement for the period while you were seated in business. NO!
Wrong analogy. Marriott did let you finish the flight in business. If you managed to check-in while you were temporarily Plat or Gold, noone is going to take away your Platinum Arrival Gift and evict you from the upgraded room.

They just corrected the error in their system so you are not upgraded to business next time. Yes, that's very uncool.
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