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Old Jun 27, 2012 | 7:12 pm
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seratonin7
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Originally Posted by EsquireFlyer
I don't know if it violates the COC, but I'm pretty sure I've read on FlyerTalk about people being banned from airlines for doing this on a repeated basis.
Do airlines actually have a way of tracking that someone would do this? Since the reservation is in someone else's name, how would they know who is doing this? The billing credit card matching the actual passenger's name? I can't really see how else they could match it back to someone.
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