Originally Posted by
Atlantico
I booked a flight FRA-DKR Saver Business Class for 25K dated 06/15/2011.
Since it was my first Onepass award I haven't realized that the ticket is not issued instantly. I got the eMail confirmation but have not realized that ticket is not issued.
I called the same day to Onepass asking for the LH reference and got the same. I was and still am able to view the reservation on LH webpage and to select seats.
So actually everything was fine for me and I haven't realized that no ticket was issued.
On June 19/2011 I've booked another flight, this time a one way trip AGP-FRA and got two eMails from Continental. The first one as a purchase confirmation and the second one with the eTicket.
At that time I realized that the miles for the 1st booked flight had not been deducted form my account.
That's when I contacted Onepass again and asked why the miles haven’t been debited and why I haven’t received any eTicket so far. I then got the information that apparently a system issue happened and I need to pay 45K miles and not the 25K, only if I agree I would get the ticket issued.
No one from Onepass ever contacted me informing that my ticket won't be issued since they had an issue. So in my point o view I got a purchase confirmation from Continental where the price for the Taxes and the need miles where shown, but they refuse now to issue the ticket as there was a system issue. It's not my fault that they had any issue and how should I know that there was an issue? Also I haven’t received any information neither via eMail or phone about what happened.....
As you know, 6/15/11 was the first day that One-Way reward availability was offered on CO. So, if you had checked the
award chart, it clearly states that the reward you booked required 45K miles! Why the system 'allowed' you to reserve it for 25K is unexplainable, but clearly CO has the ability to re-check the 'pricing' & caught the mis-pricing. I agree that the only way you would have seen this problem is the lack of the confirmed itinerary on your CO.com account. The fact that LH has a record of your 'reservation' -- is a separate step in the process, as that is an 'agreement' b/w CO & LH. I assume that your 2nd reward tkt priced correctly, in terms of miles, so it was ticketed promptly.
There are many incidences reported where things happened to confirmed itineraries & no notification is sent, & the only way to be aware of it, is to check the itinerary on CO.com.!