Originally Posted by
TheRoadie
Interesting. Mileage runs must also trip the inefficiency detector. If they also offered ORC, even if it was a MR, there's no downside.
What Delta SHOULD do is call me and ask if it is a MR. If yes, then offer me the miles and the MQMs and don't make me fly the route at all!^
**Edit added** Of course only in this oversold situation. They wouldn't let me buy MQMs as cheap as accrued via a cheap ticket i.e. picked up a SBN - DTW -JFK -SAN -ATL - DTW - SBN = 6400+ for around $0.038/cpm