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Old Dec 20, 2013 | 6:30 pm
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Originally Posted by 5khours
Why any company would pay for YBM fares is beyond me. DL was basically scamming the system by creating an incentive for employees to book over-priced fares in order to use their SWUs. This wasted company money and created a system where there were no international UG benefits for people working for companies with rationale travel policies or those who were weren't profligate or irresponsible with their employer's money.
If you were Delta, why would you want that to end?

Originally Posted by cheesewhiz
Is it bad that part of me is looking forward to some DM screaming for Delta to thin the herd of so-called low-rev medallions because they can't get aisle EC seats on transcons?
That's somewhat the point of MQD. Seems like there's a fair number of marginal FOs/GMs who won't be "hogging" the EC seats.
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