Join Date: May 2006
Location: 5 miles from EMA
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I booked an AS redemption recently and was not charged the booking fee.
I didn't ask for it to be waived (in fact I had forgotten about the policy to charge it), and the agent didn't mention it either.
In this case it was a case of YMMV, the whole thing was so cheap, paying the booking fee wasn't a huge deal anyway if it had been charged.