Originally Posted by
Finkface
Other airlines do this as well. There are threads about Air France canceling tickets that were bought purely with transferred-in points when no points had ever been earned from flying AF. I can try to find the thread but there are a few out there on other airline forums with similar tales of tickets bought with purchased/transferred miles being canceled. Not unreasonable, IMO, and I would guess they feel they are on the right side of their T&C, but my point is, this is in no way unique to AS.
So do AS’ T&C say that they are allowed to simply cancel tickets or disallow the use of miles for booking tickets if the account holder has used purely purchased miles?
I wouldn’t find that “not unreasonable” at all unless any mileage purchase has a big fat disclaimer explaining the restrictions. Miles should be miles, no matter how you earn/purchase/receive them (as long as it’s a legit source).