Originally Posted by
redtop43
I'm not saying you are wrong... but why would AC get scamcharges out of an AP ticket that is not even on AC? They aren't the ones selling the ticket, right?
As for RDU, I have looked sometimes 6-10 months in advance and not found 15K mile award tickets - at least not on the flights I need. "Capacity Control" apparently means "Never ever, no matter how far ahead, on flight 7980 on Fridays and 7979 on Sundays."
They are the ones issuing/validating the ticket (014).
Even AC admitted scamcharges are going to ticketing carrier.
They requested them to be collected by Aeroplan - the likelihood of other airlines requesting these (via AC - the ticketing carrier) is slim, or they would have requested them out of UA/US as well. There is no way that other carriers told UA/US to collect scamcharges, and those ticket issuers are eating the charges. Only one logical conclusion - either AC is unique in the request by other airlines, or there was no such request at all by those other airlines, and AC is pocketing the money.