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Old Feb 4, 2021, 7:23 am
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Originally Posted by Kacee
Except it doesn't specify the fee that was actually charged at the airport. That's noncompliant.

If it said, "without 1K status, the charge will be $xx," that would probably suffice. But it did not.
The Rule does not require that. It simply says that the fee "may take into account ... status" The UA e-ticket receipt in question specifies $ fees and then contains a note "taking into account status."

That may not be what one would like or what DOT intended, but it is what they wrote.
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