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Dec 8, 2006, 4:56 am

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Swiss Tony

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Originally Posted by James S

OK, I didn't really want to push it with her, but she was happy to give the details.

MY OP was a bit misleading. Dad had Qantas FF points. Apparently Qantas has more award flights available if you phone them, compared to on-line, but you have to spend extra points to access them.

So they put her on a QF flight operated by BA... that's how she got to fly in F at short notice. So did not really have much to do with BA compassion at all.

And my bolding makes this look like the way a number of other FF plans work... I think UA is one of them - basically you hand over 2x the miles and so long as there's an open seat, you get access.

So probably just the regular MO...

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