Originally Posted by
silver-tls
Wonder how they would deal with this situation:
SFO-SMF is 86 miles. Takes about 1.5 hours to drive and the flight is 25 minutes (officially about 45).
Oversold this past weekend and they were offering to refund flights, and the normal VDB credit and car rental reimbursement.
Would you qualify for the 500 eqm's if you drove?
Not if they refunded you AND gave you VDB credit AND reimbursed your rental car. If all that really happened, I'd say you made out pretty damn well. I'd also say you're not entitled to receive any EQMs for your originally scheduled flight. The key is that they refunded your ticket. No ticket, no credit.
The typical situation is if you had something like ORD-LAX-SFO, but ended up being forced to fly ORD-SFO. In that case, you could ask the airline for original routing credit/mileage.