<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Seth:
IMHO, the more important question is "How in the HE** did you manage to get a standard BF award to HNL??"
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I fully expect that when MissBumpMe! and I get to the gate we'll kindly be told an extra 120,000 miles has been deducted from my account to "enhance" this trip.
Really, securing the seats was all about luck. I'd been checking for a few weeks and suddenly saw Z inventory open up. On a whim, I called to see if any E/G seats were available within that Z bucket... and they were!
I'm Plat, and maybe that helped... but what's interesting to note is that CO.com showed NO availability at the SAME time the agent on the phone confirmed our reservation. Hmmm.
What's funny is that the DCA-IAH leg required a waitlist but the IAH HNL did not!
We got HNL EWR on the return... and EWR to DCA in an ALL-FIRST CLASS ERJ. Wooo Hooo!
So, we got lucky.
And, to wrap up this thread... the waitlist cleared yesterday. We got a phone message last night from CO.
I am 100% shocked that it all worked.
Happy, but still shocked.
This is why MissBumpMe! and I left DL cold turkey.