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Old Mar 4, 2021, 6:12 pm
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dtremit
 
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Originally Posted by AutoSlash
Does anyone know why you can't apply your travel bank balance to Jet With Your Pet fees? It would only let me apply it to the $5.XX in taxes on a points booking which I found really annoying as I was hoping for the pet fee to almost zero out my travel bank balance.
I think the real reason is that it lives in Sabre in a record tied to a PNR and Sabre doesn't have the flexibility to apply it to anything that isn't a fare or a tax. The things that are excluded are accounted for via different mechanisms.
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