Originally Posted by
djk7
Probably for pretty much the same reason that no airline allows you to buy tickets and still earn any kind of credit without actually flying. You could just end up buying status by finding the cheapest flight per mile anywhere. In your case, it wouldn't be quite the same, since you are flying, but if they allowed it, mileage runners could just buy 2 (or more) seats and multiply their mileage runs.
Ah! but that's my point. I want to buy more than one seat and get a second or third set of mqm's bc I do prefer to efficiently use my time on MRs AND "poor man's first class" by laying across 3 seats, esp when I know the first class cab is full.
All the airlines complain about profits... Pose this question: a second seat per FTer who isn't checking or carrying on luggage or adding any additional weight to the plane AND is actually BUYing the seat; isn't that seat, in fact, more profitable for said airline?