<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by PremEx:
I have never seen a "full fare" designation on a manifest (even when traveling with known full fare pax) and was told by a United VP once that this was done on purpose so as not to inadvertantly encourage FA's to treat upgraded passengers any less that full fares in terms of service.
The DM and gate management lists do indicte this, but the on-board manifest does not, as far as I have ever known.
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During each of my full fare "premium" transcons flights between SFO and JFK over the last year, I have seen this designation on the onboard manifests nearly every time I have looked. This is a rhetorical question, but is it possible that for some reason they were consistently loading the DM manifests on these flights?
Now that I think about it, I do not recall
ever seeing this designation on any other flight. But I have seen some other anomalies over the years, On a flight between PDX and IAD last year, nearly every passenger occupying the front cabin was listed as *Gold, accompanied by no other differentiating MP criteria. Incidentally, the FA on that flight interpreted *Gold to be synonymous with 1K.
I do agree with the stated intention of the United VP, i.e. that the on board manifests really should
not contain any information that would enable the FA to distinguish between full fare passengers and upgrades.