'Grab a Seat' - 1 Day only Sale
Oct 24, 2006, 10:14 pm
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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
... and Air NZ refuses to pay them for the miles?
I imagine a Christchurch to Palmerston North "P" ticket claim will cost UA in money what a few sheets of letterhead and laser toner and envelope runs in there. A dollar or so.
And the functionary handling these things could not usually care less.
Last edited by ozstamps; Oct 24, 2006 at 10:21 pm
Oct 24, 2006, 10:24 pm
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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
Even if the boarding pass has "AIRPOINTS NIL" printed prominently and Air NZ refuses to pay them for the miles?
No wonder they're in sorry state financially.
No wonder they're in sorry state financially.
And yes, for reasons just like this.
For YEARS Thai and SQ refused to credit full or any miles on their OWN FF plans on a bunch of discount fares.
UA honored the lot AFAIK, until their website slowly added fare class exclusions. After that the door closes. But not until. ^
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Nov 6, 2006, 3:30 pm
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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
Note for international while only one-way displays the special fare seems to be loaded both ways.
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Nov 7, 2006, 2:57 pm
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Just booked 2 seats on a CHC-RAR turnaround for NZ$285 each all in on grabaseat. Complimentary and standby upgrades already processed and we're sitting in 1E and 1F for 9 hours of business class pampering. Nice.
Nov 7, 2006, 5:45 pm
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Originally Posted by CHC Kiwi
Just booked 2 seats on a CHC-RAR turnaround for NZ$285 each all in on grabaseat.
Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
Now that I've used grab a seat for pacific, they have sent me an email promoting it.
Nov 7, 2006, 5:48 pm
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Originally Posted by kiwibigdave
I got a promo email yesterday too, so if it's the same one it's presumably nothing to do with your pacific booking specifically?
Nov 7, 2006, 6:13 pm
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Originally Posted by CHC Kiwi
Just booked 2 seats on a CHC-RAR turnaround for NZ$285 each all in on grabaseat. Complimentary and standby upgrades already processed and we're sitting in 1E and 1F for 9 hours of business class pampering. Nice.
I mean, it's not that I'm desparate to fly to Wanganui, but it would be good to know.
Nov 7, 2006, 6:46 pm
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Originally Posted by debh
I checked fairly early this morning and would swear that neither the CHC-RAR nor the AKL-WAG-AKL were available on grabaseat, although the other two deals were. Is there any consistency in terms of when deals are posted? Is there a specific time of the day when it's best to check?
More recently there is no pattern that I can tell as to when they are loaded. I think this is silly since they have gone to the effort to educate customers of the ongoing one day sale and it makes sense to have a time of day that people know the seats will be released. Virgin Blue does this with their happy hour sales.