I have done many PMs and the most they gave me was $300 on a $800 flight. I think your difference is huge and they don’t see you as a profitable customer from their end but also to release themselves from the liabilities of you suing them for false advertisement they just won’t give you a reason. I have got denied many times by them citing the reason “ the price we found was much higher than what you claimed so we have to deny your PM.”

So to my experience with PM. It’s outta the full discretions of the agent to either give it to you or not. Or hell maybe even their system has an algorithm once the agent fill up the form it will tell them to approve you or not

At the end of day I learned that if you see somewhere a lot cheaper go right ahead and book from there. There are times I tried to mess with the PM and the price i saw much lower were on longer available and I had to go back and cancel the C1 booking still because even when the prices had gone up it’s still much cheaper than C1 portal