Phone Agents were fantastic in helping me with my MR

currentjer · Dec 21, 12, 2:44 pm

Love the Delta medallion phone line. I priced out an itin on ita:

BNA-ATL-SEA-MSP-AMS-CDG-DUB-CDG-AMS-ATL-SEA-ATL-BNA

For 1070 a/i at about 5.5cpm. As opposed to BNA-ATL/JFK-DUB, which would have netted me 10k less miles for 900 - this one was a no brainer.

Couldn't book it, but agents worked with me in order to get the same price as I was seeing on ita - they even gave me a voucher to push the price down to 1070.

Not bad at all - they have been fantastic.

HongKonger · Dec 21, 12, 3:09 pm

WOW what a run.

How were you even able to find it on ITA? How does one search for something like that?

trekwars2000 · Dec 21, 12, 3:22 pm

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Originally Posted by HongKonger

WOW what a run.

How were you even able to find it on ITA? How does one search for something like that?

The OP is likely nesting a SEA-DUB fare within a BNA-SEA fare. They probably searched something like:
Depart: BNA :: DL+ SEA DL+ AMS KL+ CDG AF+
Arrive: DUB :: AF+ CDG KL+ AMS DL+ SEA DL+

HongKonger · Dec 21, 12, 3:42 pm

I really need to learn how to use ITA

currentjer · Dec 21, 12, 3:45 pm

trekwars2000 is correct, it's nested. BNA has terrible fares to most places (even domestically), so I would always nest it into BOS, SEA, or RDU.

lamont2718 · Dec 21, 12, 7:40 pm

They gave you a voucher to get you to the ITA price? Amazing. Is that normal??

currentjer · Dec 21, 12, 7:49 pm

I don't know - I told them that this was the fare that I found on ita, and gave them the construction code. They couldn't push the pricing through, so they applied a voucher to the reservation. It's web support who provided the voucher though.

nystateofmind · Dec 21, 12, 9:07 pm

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Originally Posted by currentjer

I don't know - I told them that this was the fare that I found on ita, and gave them the construction code. They couldn't push the pricing through, so they applied a voucher to the reservation. It's web support who provided the voucher though.

Hopefully you will get full credit and it is not considered like a ticket where if you pay any portion with miles it is incapable of earning miles

currentjer · Dec 21, 12, 9:56 pm

well, it should be fine - i hope.

currentjer · Dec 21, 12, 11:48 pm

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Originally Posted by nystateofmind

Hopefully you will get full credit and it is not considered like a ticket where if you pay any portion with miles it is incapable of earning miles

Okay, I checked the cert that was applied via the phone agents - I am safe.

readywhenyouare · Dec 22, 12, 12:03 am

Wow, that is truly worthy of applause! I don't think I would know my own name after a trip like that...

DLB404 · Dec 22, 12, 6:46 am

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Originally Posted by HongKonger

I really need to learn how to use ITA

I am with you on needing to learn how to use ITA. I wish one of the gurus here would hold a web ex for us newbies to MR's.

cfischer · Dec 22, 12, 9:24 am

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Originally Posted by DLB404

I am with you on needing to learn how to use ITA. I wish one of the gurus here would hold a web ex for us newbies to MR's.

there is an ITA thread where you can find most of the basic and some pretty advanced information. ITA is great if you know the code; booking things is another can of worms.

New ITA features

is the most recent thread. Search the MR Discussion forum for plenty of useful tips.

BusTrav8yrs · Dec 22, 12, 9:36 am

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cfischer · Dec 22, 12, 9:40 am

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Originally Posted by BusTrav8yrs

You could have bought the same number of MQMs for the same price and stayed home.

The OP will earn > 39k miles which are worth quite a bit of money. Also, you can only buy 10k MQM and the OP is earning 19511 MQM which means 9511 additional miles will roll over.
Sounds like a good decision to me if one has the time to fly!