<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by dbaker:
I've never flown an airline where the flight attendants have a manifest that indicates if the passenger paid for the ticket or not.
On the ground, you don't have the same protections that you might on a revenue ticket, so you might not be transferred to another airline in case of a misconnect, etc.
The air service is all that matters much to me, really.
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The policy on irregular operation amenities varies by airline (and it is in the contract of carriage, for those who care to read it). Some airlines are much better than others. Delta will re-route an award ticket in paid F, even onto their competition, and do so without prompting; so will LH. United will not. Each airline varies, but some have *identical* amenities for award and paid tickets. This is fair, as the airline industry made 4% of its global revenue last year by *selling* frequent flyer miles (to credit card companies, for example), so these are *sold* tickets as well as being an "award".