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Old Nov 9, 2015 | 5:38 pm
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QuadraSix10
 
Join Date: Nov 2015
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Talking To fly or not to fly [Flight valid from former employer]

I'd like to tap into the collective wisdom of the Flyer Talk Community for some insight and advice on a particularly interesting situation I find myself in. As I write this post I am currently unemployed due to being laid off in one of the many rounds of job cuts at my company after we were spun out from a major Fortune 500 Tech company and then that company was divested again. I'll spare you the gory details but long story short, I'm doing just fine, they gave me a severance; however, due to being out of work it seems that I will not hit Premier 1K status for the first time in 3 years due to the mileage requirement (I've already well surpassed the minimum spend). At the moment I have 79,779 PQM, would means I would need just over 20k miles in less then 2 months, I began to resign myself to the idea of being a platinum flyer for the next 12 months...until I signed into my United Account this morning and found that a flight I booked to Australia back in July is still showing up under my profile. The flight leaves this Thursday evening... I booked this flight through our corporate travel agency (CWT) and I guess somehow this flight seems to have slipped through the cracks. The irony is that this 1 single flight would give me over 22k PQM due to it being booked as business class fair. I know the right thing to do would be to cancel the flight but I'm wondering if anyone has any insight as to weather or not my company would even get credit for fare if I were to cancle or if I was a no show. Remember that my company would split out from a major public company and then divested again so I think there is a strong chance they dont use the same travel agency. Setting aside the moral implications of traveling on this ticket, does anyone have any insight as to how I may be able to get away with taking this flight and sneaking by under the radar? Before you judge me, think about what you would do if you were in my shoes...I guess if there was a reasonably priced itinerary that would give me $20k PQM that would also work as well.

Thanks in advance!
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