Originally Posted by shintz

Thanks, noted.

Although I do think reasonable people can have a difference of opinion here. This seems like extremely small risk -- usually when I call an airline, the agents can barely perform the most basic function like change a seat assignment. The likelihood of the agent (who probably has a queue of many calls) taking the time to look through the res and proactively noticing something and then taking action seems infinitesimally small. It's not like I called and asked a question about the fare, the booking class, where I would be seated, or anything else that might trigger suspicion. I guess I'm just smarting a bit from someone calling me selfish for having called. I certainly wouldn't have done so if I thought it would jeopardize the deal for others.

BTW, I think the biggest risk to the deal is all the people booking it. The airline is far more likely to have automated systems that detect unusual booking patters -- like a ton of people all of a sudden booking a specific flight in a specific fare basis -- than a human in a call center catching based on someone simply asking for a conf number, which probably happens many, many times a day for totally innocuous reasons.