Originally Posted by
Raptor
Example: front DH of $800 to ANC, back DH from NRT for $2500--that's how your pairing was originally and how you blocked out. Original bank total $3300. While you are on trip, you get revised to add a SIN-NRT DH for $4000, and operate NRT-ANC, and DH from ANC for $800. That's how you ended the trip. Total bank $5600.
How it can bite you. If you spent $1000 getting to ANC and were planning on spending $2000 getting back from NRT, you were planning on being $300 under bank. But with the revision, you already spent $1000 positioning, you took scheduled mid trip for $4000, and have now spent $5000 of your $5600 bank and you can't get home on the $600 left from ANC and must spend $200 out of pocket.
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Had a simular thing happen. CDG STBY's, scheduled with operate to CDG and DH home. Was revised with a mid trip DEV (from MEM back to CDG) and further revised to loose the backend DH. Lost all backend DH money.
This loophole in how our DEV bank is managed could bite you if you were counting on (or had already spent) DH money on a trip and events you couldn't control (revision while operating) added a mid trip DH. Bottom line; this fix is a good thing.
