$100 USD coupon for service recovery- can be used for flights? How?
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$100 USD coupon for service recovery- can be used for flights? How?
So, for a flight I took in July, I ended up with two $50 USD vouchers (two hour delay on a HKG-BKK segment plus my longhaul J seat had no power, which was fine- I actually told them to recline it manually and I passed out for the ~2 hour flight, since it was about 4 am according to my body clock).
I assume the best way to use them is for duty-free, but I wasn't interested in lugging a bottle of scotch around the world (this was a SEA-LAX-HKG-BKK-CNX-BKK-ZRH-TXL-HAM-AMS-DUS-ORD-SEA two week+ extravaganza of travel, all done in carryons), but it does say they can be used for flights. I assume I have to actually show up at a CX ticket office to do this. Would this actually work if I showed up at YVR, SFO or LAX with a credit card and said "book me on Premium Economy to Narita out of LAX with a stopover in Hong Kong"? (I'm inclined to try this as a reasonable way to retain status on AS for 2018- IF I can get a ~$1500 USD fare and knock a $100 off of it too, sounds reasonable.)
I assume the best way to use them is for duty-free, but I wasn't interested in lugging a bottle of scotch around the world (this was a SEA-LAX-HKG-BKK-CNX-BKK-ZRH-TXL-HAM-AMS-DUS-ORD-SEA two week+ extravaganza of travel, all done in carryons), but it does say they can be used for flights. I assume I have to actually show up at a CX ticket office to do this. Would this actually work if I showed up at YVR, SFO or LAX with a credit card and said "book me on Premium Economy to Narita out of LAX with a stopover in Hong Kong"? (I'm inclined to try this as a reasonable way to retain status on AS for 2018- IF I can get a ~$1500 USD fare and knock a $100 off of it too, sounds reasonable.)
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