Originally Posted by
TWA Fan 1
Let's set up a very simple example, just for argument's sake.
Let's assume 1 award seat per flight.
Let's assume 2 customers. One booking a one-way award (at 50%) and one booking a roundtrip (at 100%, obviously). Thus, the total value of the miles in this case is 150%.
If the customer booking the roundtrip gets the seat first, CO has had to give up 100% of the 150% available award miles in this case.
Well the example is ridiculously over-simplified and it attributes 100% of the reward miles to half the travel in the round trip scenario. Moreover, since one-way rewards would be available the implication is that all rewards are such. So there is no more round trip and the math no longer applies.
In other words, come up with something else that actually isn't so flawed as an argument. This one is a joke.