BillScann

Price dropped, I was notified by Yapta via email, a few minutes later I was getting a $25 credit.

Stein

Thanks so much!

I am usually pretty up to speed with working the system but had no idea about the travel voucher program.

Just got $75 for a flight and have to check two others. Since I travel on my employer's dime, this is free money for vacation travel.

COpltASgldPHX

Why wouldn't you turn the vouchers in to your employer to be applied towards future business travel? It is, after all, their money. Are the miles you accrue from your business travel, which I assume you use towards leisure travel, not enough of a perk?

tomcsa

Just got an email last night that the $206 trip dropped by $97. Called and got the credit voucher. Yapta more or less takes the risk out of buying tickets too high on airlines like Alaska where getting the voucher is pretty easy.

formeraa

Boy, our ethics are challenged these days. When is scamming your employer acceptable? If the employer paid for the ticket, it should go back to the employer. PERIOD.

Youthinasia

I got a $25 voucher and it's an e-voucher redeemable online.

Youthinasia

Nothing wrong with making Whitey pay: employees gets ripped off enough by The Man.

Seattlenerd

I never thought ethics were optional in cases where one personally benefitted. Just yesterday, I went back to a register at a Whole Foods Market in a city I'd travelled to where they forgot to charge me for a small bottle of wine (they had removed a double charge for a food item and accidentally removed the wine, too) -- the cashier thanked me for being honest. Sad to see that it even requires a "thank you for being honest."

I just signed up for Yapta and it appears I've got a $69 credit on NW coming for a client-paid ticket, even after the $50 change fee; it's a total of $119 difference. I'll apply it to future travel for that client (if I think it's worth the hassle of claiming it; I don't know if NW is as nice about vouchers as AS).

AKronin

Kudos to those saving $$.

I must keep picking funky flights. I've only added a couple so far, and both quickly became "untrackable" according to Yapta, even though I could still find them w/o problem on AS' site.

westcoastman

I was told a while back that when they rebook the ticket you start over on the FC upgrade list. Not sure if this still applies but just an FYI. In fact, one agent said someone else might grab my FC seat if I tried to get the fare difference.

beckoa

This has been a concern of mine too... which from what it sounds like, AS reticket the itin and issues a credit... same PNR but different 'purchase date' (or something like that)...

So if one has AS or NW status... this would reduce your position in the UG list...

eponymous_coward

Of course, that could also happen if someone BOUGHT your F seat, since presumably the only way this could happen is if you're repricing a discounted fare that isn't instantly upgradeable at time of purchase, and you're waiting for the 72 hour/48 hour MVPG/MVP free upgrade.

That's the thing- it's not a gimme that you'll score an upgrade to F anyway if you are buying out of the bargain bucket, so taking the cash and taking your chances on going down the queue seems reasonable to me- plus if you are MVPG, you automatically trump the MVPs no matter what.

eponymous_coward

Another fare drop, another credit (on a ticket that already went down $20 and already got a YAPTA credit).

BTW, Alaska does these in $25 increments. In this case, my fare went down $20, but I got a $25 credit- so even if your fare goes down $5, you get a $25 credit.

CDKing

I wish i knew about this earlier when my trip dopped $100. now its gone back up.

USAF1

^^ Right on! This is theft!...and yet, those same people "getting over on their employer" get mad at the many corporate CEO's who defrauded us out of billions of dollars which led to the current financial crisis that our country faces! Even more troublesome is the fact that some people are proud to gloat about it.