Originally Posted by
flatlander
There's always the 1% chance that they have to do some manual action on your reservation and you end up credited as a paid flight, which can't happen at all if you don't have a FF number on the reservation.
With that I'm off to buy some lottery scratchcards
Then that would make me a BIG winner!! Happened to me on a CX F redemption, BKK-HKG-BOS. Checked in at BKK. They could see my rezzie and ticket, could see that I was in F HKG-BOS; but somehow it had been shifted back to Y for BKK-HKG. The agent played with the computer for a bit, then just gave up and booked me into full fare F. I got full credit for the flight.