Originally Posted by
kinglerch
I've always been confused why if you buy a ticket, you can't get the miles if you don't fly. And if you want some extra room on a flight, why can't you buy 2 or 3 seats and stretch out.
If you don't fly, they give your seat away. And you can't get any mileage credit unless you are actually in the air, even though the airlines have your $. Why do they care?
Air travel seems like the only product you can buy, and get charged a fee if you change your mind even 9 months before your flight yet the airlines can change the flight 10 times and you get nothing....
Can anyone offer any logic to this air travel weirdness?
@:-) Good point and something I've wondered about. As you noted, it would seem that the airlines could make more money (indeed squeeze more seats onto each plane) by offering these phantom seats.
You buy your ticket, choose not to fly and you still get miles. It would be just another variation of "buying miles" but in this case "buying RDMs and EQMs".