Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: TLL
Programs: UA Platinum/*G (pmCO Plat, once upon a time), ZE President's Circle, Marriott Gold, AA, BT, DL, PS
Posts: 100
Sorry to bump an old thread, but this is something I had experience with recently, which may be of interest.
Scenario: Doing AUS-IAH-LGA for cost, but actual destination was near EWR.
At AUS (dealing with PMUA agents) I was turned down flat by everyone I asked. (I assumed this was because they were PMUA; in the good old CO days, I would regularly change BWI or IAD flights to DCA, and LGA to EWR, no problem.)
At IAH,I asked the terminal CSR (PMCO) to do the co-terminal change to EWR; she said no, but asked her supervisor anyway--who put it through when she heard I was elite,telling the original CSR to enter it "because he's making a connection" at EWR, wink-wink.
So looks like the computer system does indeed discourage this sort of thing these days. Shame, but never hurts to ask anyway!