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IAH_FLYER

May I suggest a possible solution since IAH is your home. Book a new additional first class award travel:

LAX-IAH [long stop over in IAH]
IAH-XXX [XXX is somewhere you want to go later this year]
XXX-IAH
IAH-LAX [technically you do not have to reserve this, nevertheless you can get out of the plane]

Waste your current LAX-IAH segment.

This only works if you live in the central hub city.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by SemiElite:
A domestic connection to the QF gateway is not a "bonus" or a "courtesy"!!! It's contractually part of the reward ticket!!!

From the CO website:

"Flights to/from North America include connecting travel to/from 48 U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico."

Now, that's as clear as it comes!!! Sure doesn't look like a "bonus" or a "courtesy" to me!

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I think maybe the agent was talking about class of service for the domestic connection--nothing in the quote you had above indicates that domestic connections have to be in the same class of service as the international, or did I miss something?

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by tvx:
I think maybe the agent was talking about class of service for the domestic connection--nothing in the quote you had above indicates that domestic connections have to be in the same class of service as the international, or did I miss something?

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I would think that would be implied. When you book a reward ticket, you book either Coach or First/BusinessFirst. And the First/BusinessFirst Reward costs more miles than the Coach ticket. You've paid for First, and that's what you have a right to expect, for the entire contracted trip, not just for part of it.

Now I realize that sometimes FC isn't always available, as even the corner store runs out of stock from time to time. But, the corner store doesn't hoard a stash of merchandise in back while denying it to customers who've already paid for the product.

If you burned the miles for FC, you're entitled to FC. Giving you what you paid for isn't a "courtesy"!

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Of course it is implied as it is fact in every other airline program.

They do this because they can get away with it.