Originally Posted by
kszary
The rules referenced clearly state you cannot even make a listing if you hold a confirmed ticket so, yes, the OP is actually in clear violation of his friend's company-provided travel policy. As a former AMR employee, I can assure the OP they take these things quite seriously and even having the duplicate booking is a sign of intended fraud (canceling the revenue ticket in favor of the D3 instead).
They should delete the PNR but as long as they don’t check in they would be fine. Do you think all gate agents are out to get other employees in trouble ? It’s possible if he boarded with both seats and the gate agent realizes this they might just come on board point a finger and say “don’t do this ever again”. Surely he will then clear the lump in his throat and never do it again.