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Old May 13, 2020 | 3:06 pm
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Qwkynuf
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Weird MQD calculation

So this is odd. I flew a 2 segment, one way yesterday, that I purchased ~36 hours before flight time. I'm a DM on a K fare. Cost of the ticket was $276.48 + $14.60 in taxes, for a total of $291.08. That is what shows in Egencia, where I purchased my ticket. Looking at the receipt in "My Wallet" in the FlyDelta app, same numbers.

But when I look at my Skymiles activity, I earned $628 MQDs - $164 for the short segment, and $464 for the longer one.

In the other direction, the week before (also one way), I got $509 for a ticket that was $295.68 before taxes.

In the past, my MQDs were always exactly equal to my base fare rounded up to the next whole dollar. The only thing that I can think of that was any way unusual about these tickets would be that both were paid for entirely with credits from canceled flights. But I have done that before without a result like this.

Anyone seen anything like this recently?
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