Originally Posted by
xooz
Having perused the
Coupon Connection thread a few times, is "bartering" truly prohibited? While it is clear that cash transactions are a no-no and there are other caveats, there do seem to be options for FT users to swap travel products between consenting adults. I do see Avios as occasional trade fodder. Not necessarily what OP had in mind I suspect.
Please allow me to put my Community Director hat on to clarify this. Coupon Connection exists to reward those who've contributed positively to the main FT forums - and continue to do so. It gives them the opportunity to exchange one travel product for another
where permitted legally and under a loyalty scheme's Terms and Conditions.
We have started trialing allowing this to happen in limited airline forums where appropriate, but only for specific giveaways (e.g. AA upgrade instrumenrs). There is no free-for-all in the general forums.
There have been examples in the past where airlines have advised us that some exchanges are in breach of their (often revised) terms and we have been asked to prevent them taking place, even in Coupon Connection. As FT does not promote acting against either the law or a program's terms, we comply with those requests.