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Old Nov 15, 2018 | 11:35 pm
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Originally Posted by rustykettel
Wow. So if customers don’t request a voucher, AS has no way of telling if the guarantee is being kept or not, and no interest in fixing it if it isn’t? Sounds like too many of their other service standards. Can’t just match bag scans and arrival times?

as has been cussed and discussed a lot upthread, bag scanning is another unicorn ... if it happened consistently, compensation would be a no-brainer

I got my first guarantee from DL last week at DCA: the baggage service agent handed me a card with a URL; shortly after I hit "Submit" the screen changed to show "Verified," and the mileage appeared in my account overnight
Originally Posted by rustykettel
My guess is it’s used as a tracking measure against the station’s performance stats. Which means they have an incentive not to cough up vouchers.
sadly, I suspect you're right -- on both counts

I don't have any more AS travel this year that will involve checking a bag, so will have to see how things shake out after the first of the year
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