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Old Apr 29, 2008 | 9:56 am
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iceman77_7
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Originally Posted by sblackman
reviving my own thread to ask:

does your booking class get changed at the gate? I've got several examples of being booked in Q and getting the mileage credit bonus because i went standby and was rebooked into Y.

Nice inadvertent benefit, anyone else experience this?
It's happened to me before, and I went from being booked on an award ticket to receiving 500 miles (it was a short hop)!
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