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Old Apr 22, 2012 | 10:27 am
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Originally Posted by woodenshoe101
In my experience, fare class is more important than status for opups intl.

A few weeks ago, my non-status colleague on a B fare BCN-ATL received an opup. As a GM on an M fare I stayed in EC.
Ouch. I don't think this is the way it's supposed to work, although if the colleague had paid full Y, I would not be surprised. I assume the BCN GAs were not DL employees, which makes not going by status more likely.
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