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Sep 12, 2010 | 7:09 pm

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Quote:

Originally Posted by rogodwin

Got a strange call from AA this morning. My wife and I have a Saturday flight MCO-MIA-JFK and the call was an offer of a direct flight MCO-JFK for only $49 pp extra

. I have a good connection in MIA and so turned it down.

- Last time I was called by AA regarding exactly the same matter, I asked whether they would consider a counteroffer of me getting let say $250 voucher compensation for taking the direct flight - in case the indirect route was overbooked. We laughed and that was the end of the story...