in my case, there have been too many times where coupons and vouchers that should have worked did not. And then you have these ones that can only be redeemed in person at the airport. I once had to take an hour subway ride on 3 connecting trains, pay the fare each way, stand in line and present a coupon to United just to have then tell me a new rule made it invalid. But when I called on the phone earlier that day, no one told me of this so you can bet how pissed off I was!

I would totally take advantage of them and use it or trade it again without a doubt. Yes, with airlines and their silly rules and fine print, two wrongs DO make a right! Now, if I sold it or gave it to a friend and it did not work, I would feel obligated to give them their money back, but I would definitely use it. For my wife, we felt "made up to" when she had an upgrade voucher similar to the one of the original poster and they never took it at the first airport gate. So she got to fly Business class to Europe and back when the coupon was only suppose to work one way (on the outbound flights)

If I could have found a way to white out the date and write a new one on there, I would have done that too! Yep, for airline stuff, I do this stuff. I hate how airlines make us jump thru hoops. IN no other area of my life to I break rules of ethics or legality... Only with airlines.

I even made a stamp with the red box and numbers in it for RULE 240. That's the one where one airline endorses over a ticket to fly on another. If the ticket is stamped, you dont have to run between terminals and beg agents to help you while the other plane you want to be on is going to fly away. I used my stamp twice and it worked. If something ever happened, I would play dumb. I will never let anyone else use it. I dont care what people say. Airlines deserve to be going under. They are not fair. Only Starwood is fair. I would never do this type of stuff with anything they have. I dont go LOOKING for ways to be this person, but if the opportunity presents itself, I am all over it.
Screw em! Use the cupon! They should have hired better people to more efficiently run their systems and businesses that prevent things from being abused. Instead they lay off good people and then make us pay fees to book the way we always have, etc. Fees, fees, fees.

nuf said.
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