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Originally Posted by aubreyfromwheaton
someone on another page explained the rationale behind this as they don't care who buys the cheap seat, but without the cheap seats bought, the expensive seats cannot be sold, so it's like musical chairs, gotta fill the cheapies before raking in the cash.
Not at all true: they can set fares to increase over time, so anybody who buys at the last minute pays the high fare, whether or not any cheap fares were purchased. They aren't required to sell X number of cheap seats first.
However, they have an estimate of how many expensive seats they'll sell last-minute, so they want to sell the rest of the plane as cheap seats in advance rather than letting them fly empty.
No that's wrong. If the plane is wide open and the airlines aren't colluding there's no way they will maximize revenue by keeping the fare as High as they could if the plane were fuller
They can try to charge but if there are empty planes some airline will cave for an L fare equivalent.
Wow! Y'all are fast. As promised this year's Buy MQMs promotion information is now available. For the all details visit www.delta.com/buymqms - we know how popular this was last year. The promotion officially starts at 12:00am CST on 11/15/2012. Enjoy!
To the folks at Delta -- this is a HUGE value-add for me, and would like to thank those that keep this moving, and helped keep me in plat for the last year.
Programs: DL DM, National Executive, SPG Gold, Global Entry, NEXUS
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I'm in for 10k. With some planning, hoping to stop a few MQMs shy of Diamond this year so this helps enormously. Diamond should be cake in 2013 with this sweetener!
Wow! Y'all are fast. As promised this year's Buy MQMs promotion information is now available. For the all details visit www.delta.com/buymqms - we know how popular this was last year. The promotion officially starts at 12:00am CST on 11/15/2012. Enjoy!
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Good promo. I am sitting on the sidelines. Ending the year with 49,976 MQMs as current GM ... with 25K before February, I will be GM again but for a year longer!
The good news is that — when compared to last year — the opportunity to purchase Medallion Qualification Miles has been extended by approximately a month. Last year, the period of time was at the end of November through December 15, 2011; whereas this year the period of time for this promotion is effective between November 15, 2012 and December 31, 2012 — triple the amount of time for you to purchase Medallion Qualification Miles.
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Awful pricing especially considering last year. I certainly haven't seen any positive additions to the medallion perks, maybe they get their market research data from Neil Newhouse
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Good promo. I am sitting on the sidelines. Ending the year with 49,976 MQMs as current GM ... with 25K before February, I will be GM again but for a year longer!
+1 but I end with 49602 and have 26K booked for January.
Wow, first it was for charity.
Then last year DL decided to keep the money for themselves.
It was so successful last year they felt the need to raise the price even more!
