The day American or United start really policing travelers on this they might as well fole bankruptcy. The highest mileage customers use this all the time if they are incentivised to. The only people that pay full fare anymore are people that do not care what it cost and that audience is quickly shrinking. Has anyone on this list ever seen a passenger denied boarding for a back to back ticket? Chris Jon Wright wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Travel Pages wrote: > > > Actually, mileage loyalty plans make that happen less often than you'd imagine. People are, in fact, mostly half-brained, or believe the carriers to be so. > > Sure, people want their miles. Still, fliers who commute regularly > (the folks most likely to benefit from B-2-B tickets) typically fly > enough to maintain high status in more than one FF program. > > > How to sniff those out? Share/merge data with the competition. > > Still, it seems like it would be pretty easy to spoof. I could use > my UA credit card to buy UA tickets and my AAdvantage VISA for > travel on American. > > I could use different variations of my name for the different > airlines. And I could use a work address for one airline and > home for another. > > I just don't see how they could ever clamp down on multi-carrier > B-2-Bs. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Wright jwright@halcyon.com voice 425-635-0338 > fax 425-844-1403 > You've got a hard lip, Herbert. http://www.spudboy.com/~jwright -- Sincerely, Chris Myers 281-584-0029 x217 800-639-0450 x217 This message may contain information that is CLIENT PRIVILEGED, or otherwise PRIVILEGED or CONFIDENTIAL. If you have received this communication in error, please erase all copies of this message and its attachments and notify us immediately. Thank you.