Originally Posted by
BearX220
She had been able to access my record and saw that on the day I put the redemption through last year, I was sent four different email confirmations at different hours, each presenting a new, different calculation of taxes and fees. (Now I remember.) The trail suggests someone on the partner desk pulled the booking and worked on it manually, miscalculating the partner booking fee (first subtracting it, then doubling it, etc.) and in so doing may have led EI to think it was not paid properly, or only half-paid. (Although why EI would display the res as intact on its own system, and even happily assign two seats, is a mystery.)
Not a mystery, and an excellent example of how a PNR and the associated e-ticket are two totally different creatures. And from personal experience (on another airline), you were really lucky. My "your ticket shows as refunded" at check in fiasco of last year cost me $2200 to get home on another airline the next day (after 2.5 hours at the check-in counter, and finally an offer to put me back on the same flight for another $3300), yet I had a lovely intact reservation, and the travel insurance I had told me where to go.