Originally Posted by
pennyk
I am hoping to travel on 98 to WAS, 29 to CHI, 421 to ELP for a 2 zone redemption, and from ELP to LAX on either 421 or 1, and to EMY on the CS for a one zone redemption.
Your plan follows the rules, as
AGR Insider wrote on July 9. Your problem is that the third agent you talked to doesn't understand the rules. Try again, and if the fourth agent doesn't book what you want, talk to the agent's supervisor. If worst comes to worse book the two redemptions separately. What's the worst that can happen then? You might have to move from one roomette to another. El Paso is a long stop, so it's no problem if you have to move between sleepers.
My belief is that most AGR agents don't book many long-distance sleeper redemptions, and don't have the rules governing them at their fingertips the way we do. Why some of them then make up rules is a mystery to me, but in my experience is counterbalanced by those agents who misprice redemptions in my favor. YMMV, of course.