<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Randy Petersen:
Another great year was 1991 when airlines coming out of the Gulf war ran several "Fly Three-Get One Free" ticket promotions which did not interfere with your normal mileage accumulation.</font>
I have a great story about this promotion (or a similar one, I'm not sure which!). AA had an offer of "fly 8 segments, get a free ticket" provided each segment had a minimum value of $50/segment after taxes.
Being a college student with plenty of free time and two segments under my belt heading back to school from winter break, I booked a ticket STL-BNA-DFW-SEA-SJC-DFW-STL and paid for part of it with a travel voucher from being bumped.
Unfortunately, the agent made a mistake and failed to charge tax on the amount I paid in cash -- causing the ticket to price back at around $293.
So, I called up AA and said "This is going to sound crazy, but I owe you $15 and want to pay it." After explaining the story to the agent, my ticket was re-issued at the right price and I got my free ticket!
Greg