Originally Posted by KtownTraveler
It's happened to me. After I made a reservation for a non-elite colleague and myself, the colleague insisted that her ticket be purchased with her credit card so that she would get some cash-back benefit. Knocked her right back into the cheap seats. So I then had to give up my cozy exit row seat to be able to sit with her. Sux don't it.
That's a case where you split the PNR before ticketing, which may be why your friend got booted. In most cases on here people are talking about splitting a PNR after it's all been ticketed. In those cases, I've never seen anyone automatically booted except after schedule changes.