Originally Posted by
shiner
Well, this is majorly disappointing. I have to buy a lot of last minute tickets due to the scheduling of my trips. The one consolation I have is that these Y or B fares yield an 50% bonus. I don't understand the rationale at all - seems like you'd want to encourage the purchase of these tickets.
Because they can, or at least think they can. They figure that most people buying those tickets have to, so they are stuck. What they haven't figured out is that those same pax can comp over to another airline, buy those fares on them and get their miles. Very shortsighted.