Originally Posted by
HIDDY
Non Gold people could be abusing this system by grabbing award seats hoping that more availability opens up within 24 hours then cancelling the original booking free of charge if it does.
One could turn this around and say that some Gold folks potentially "abuse" the system by booking a flight way in advance on a whim that they may or may not travel and then cancelling a couple of days before if something came up with their fee fully refunded.