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Old Aug 30, 2017 | 4:01 pm
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Originally Posted by CPRich
Credit cards are not cash.


I forked over a $20 bill to pay the $19 fare on-board PE in the 80's. I've paid for many, many tickets on a credit card, but haven't used cash since, AFAIK.
Ha! Same era, I paid cash to fly Midway Airlines. I also believe the fare was $19 each way to/from Chicago. We were kids daytripping to Cubs games...

Anyway, to this topic. "Revenue" and "award" seems to work. I totally get that "non-revenue" is a mostly unrelated proper term that means something to airline employees, but in my experience to date that hasn't confused anyone during my travels. The people using the term "nonrev" are likely using it with their fellow employees who understand that it's different from an award.
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