When using miles to fly..
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It occasionally happens if you're rerouted involuntarily. The reason: with some airline computer systems it's easier to rebook you in the default fare class for your cabin rather than looking up your fare class and entering it. When an agent is trying to deal with a long line of angry pax from a cancelled flight, getting fare classes right is (correctly, IMHO) not his/her top priority. Of course, it's hard to plan for that - and not necessarily something you'd look forward to anyhow, unless getting miles is more important than getting to your destination on time. (This is the same reason people sometimes end up with class-of-service bonus when they're rerouted after upgrading a cheap ticket with an award or other upgrade credits.)
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Originally Posted by rex_b
well doesn't that suck
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I just got home from an award flight using Delta miles to Rome, connecting thru Paris.
We missed our flight from CDG to FCO because AF was late getting into Paris.
They did rebook us on the next flight out to FCO which happened to be on Alitalia in BE. But she must not have entered the right fare code on the new ticket, because when we got home both my wife and I got credit for the flight plus a 50% bonus posted to our Delta accounts.
So, it can happen but only on rare occasions and is always a mistake on someones part.
Also they lost our bags and we did not get them till noon the next in FCO.
Which is par for the course for AF from what I read here.
So I don't feel a bit guilty for getting the miles for the flight.
We missed our flight from CDG to FCO because AF was late getting into Paris.
They did rebook us on the next flight out to FCO which happened to be on Alitalia in BE. But she must not have entered the right fare code on the new ticket, because when we got home both my wife and I got credit for the flight plus a 50% bonus posted to our Delta accounts.
So, it can happen but only on rare occasions and is always a mistake on someones part.
Also they lost our bags and we did not get them till noon the next in FCO.
Which is par for the course for AF from what I read here.
So I don't feel a bit guilty for getting the miles for the flight.
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Originally Posted by mahasamatman
No, it doesn't. If you did, you could pay for one trip and fly for free for the rest of your life. Once all the airlines go out of business, what do you do then? Either that, or award tickets go up to 1,000,000 miles each.
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Originally Posted by rex_b
Do you get more miles for flying or is that an exclusion?
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Originally Posted by rex_b
well doesn't that suck

