Originally Posted by
IAH2MEL
Call them up - that happened to me. Need to get lucky with an operator who understands your situation. Essentially, from what I gathered, the flight is currently on hold under your name. Now you just need to tell them you want to pay for using miles + taxes.
Good idea that made sense but didn't work. Got a competent agent too but he couldn't find anything under my LM#. I wonder how long before (if?) the seats go back into inventory. Or if I owe the community at large an apology for nuking a couple...