Originally Posted by
holtju2
Do airlines missydarlin allow people to book as many awards without having the points in one account as one wishes and allow people to ticket/cancel only one day prior? Of course not.
In the current form where anyone can book and hold as many rooms as they wish wherever they wish having to cancel only one day prior arrival makes absolutely no sense at all.
Well, no... but airlines don't let you hold speculative paid bookings until the day before either, and hotels do... entirely different business model.
If I really wanted to game the system, couldn't I just hold several weeks paid bookings on basic rooms at these hotels under different names... then cancel them right before i was ready to book my FFN?
I think a few common sense rules... (like limiting speculative bookings to even 14 days, and allowing only 1 spec booking at a time) will go a long way towards stopping the perceived abuse, and make stricter rules unnecessary.