Originally Posted by brp
Thias has come up before, and been discussed a fair bit. This is a matter of personal ethics, to a degree. By holding all of these award reservations that you will, in the end, not use, you are limiting others from accessing these. I realize you're not doing this to be "mean". But, by doing this and not being organized, it ties up some of the few award seats that others might be looking for.
Again, a decision of personal ethics, just reiterating what has been said at other times, and other threads.
Cheers.
Ah love getting ethics challenged. The button says hold and I want to hold the tickets. That's what the button is for. If they didn't want to allow you to hold tickets they would stop you.
I'm talking about doing it for very short periods of time regardless. Like go through and hold all the flights for an afternoon, then go back and hold a paid reservation for another passenger. Then call the desk and ask to ticket and mileage upgrade the paid person, then confirm the related F award ticket, then cancel everything else. Very temporary, maybe you let it sit overnight to think about it, but whatever. Either way, it's kosher -- if they don't want to let you hold tickets then they should just not let you. There's not much to talk about "ethically" when the entire system is this complicated and AA themselves holds and unholds and changes tickets and fares, etc.
It's a competitive marketplace with extraordinarily complicated rules. The only ethical obligation in such a marketplace is to abide by those rules. I haven't seen a policy against it, and AA gets to make the rules, with absolute power.