Originally Posted by
spartacus
An award ticket is valued by the airlines as a full-fare ticket. That way they can write off the maximum amount from revenue for taxes. So, you are not on a free ticket. It is a ticket that has the highest cost value.
Thank you.
Can you give any more backup to this? I really want it to be true. I've been involved in a debate over on the Southwest board in which Southwest's people argue that a RR ticket is worth zero, so if you take a bump while on a freebie (RR) you're owed nothing but the sweetener that's given to revenue passengers, and the next flight out.
(As DBC, Southwest offers to refund the *value of revenue tickets*, plus a sweetener - $100, $200 - plus to get you out on the next available flight for free. While revenue passengers get their fare back, the freebie flyer's Rapid Reward disappears. Sometimes, the freebie flyer gets $50 for the value of the freebie, regardless of the highest fare paid for that flight. I argue that the latter should get the RR re-credited for later use. The Southwest people vigorously dispute this, and say the $50, when given, is overly generous of the GA. I digress.)
BUT if the airline is valuing that freebie on the books at the highest value.....
Thank you again.