Originally Posted by dlen111
reserve the cheaper flight. call tech support (not the res line) and see if they can switch the connection to the later one. tell them an old friend will be passing through iah and that you'd like to have lunch. i bet they can get you on the connection at the same price. as long as the res was made online and the tech line booked it, youll get the 1k booking bonus and 100% eqm.
Do you have experience using this approach? In my experience, whenever they make a change to a pre-ticketed flight, they refare it.