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Old Mar 11, 2018 | 8:47 am
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Originally Posted by schertz
...and they know how to ‘work’ the rules/system. A good LAA AAngel in native SABRE could work wonders. I’ve been re-booked with multiple ‘protects’ and standbys by the time the gate agent has begun processing the queue. Of course that was pre-USAir-ification.

The ORD AAngels can be miracle workers in IRROPS. For me that alone is worth the membership.

as my father (long-time EXPLAT) told me as I started flying quite a few years ago: ‘Admirals Club membership is a form of status ‘— he was and still is right.
But, as you point out, as agents are shifted to QIK and not given the capacity to work in native Sabre, the process of rebooking goes faster, but the possibilities dwindle.

All of the "magic" means having the ability to override restrictions and QIK is compliance software designed to do just that.
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