Originally Posted by
prestonh
If it was fraud there would be criminal complaints and prosecutions in the respective jurisdictions for HCT. There aren't so it isn't. HCT is a civil contract loophole UA enforces with remedies within the COA, no more, no less.
Why HCT fraud threads devolve into red herring threads is beyond me.
UA has no need to prove a tort loss. HCT fraud is plain and simple a contract issue. The two have nothing to do with each other.
Even if UA's RM/IM people have it wrong and should not logically have priced the tickets the way they did, UA is a private business, it has the right to charge what it wants and, if passengers won't pay that, it will eventually become insolvent. But, that doesn't mean that passengers get to change the deal they agree to.
My guess is that UA is surfacing the issue as fair warning. FT will eat a lot of bandwidth with people whining that they had an account with millions of miles in it and GS/1K status and now they have nothing.