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Old Dec 7, 2010 | 6:21 am
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Originally Posted by Winkdaddy
Oh. I always thought the the Y fare class 50% bonus when I had irrops was Delta saying: "Sorry for your troubles, here is a Y fare to give you better upgrade chances and some extra miles for your troubles". So i guess this was not the original intent? Why even rebook in "Y" then--just to give customers better upgrade chance for their trouble?
IMO these situations should not rebook into Y anyway. It isn't fair to higher level eiltes on more expensive fare classes to lose upgrades to FO, GM, etc. who paid for sLUT fares. IROPs should be handled at the expense of DL, not on the backs of other elites. Why should i be forced to compensate someone else with my upgrade because DL had a MX or whatever someplace in their system?
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