Originally Posted by
Qwkynuf
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?
As you used a previously used ticket this is correct. MQD post based on the total miles of all flights on a ticket. Ie four segments totaling 1000 miles one is 100 miles, one is 500, and two are 200. MQD for 100 mile equals 10% of the tickets total fare value. 500 mile flight gets 50% and the 200 mile flights each get 20% as MQD. When you use a partially used ticket the system still sees the previously flown flights. Now that the mileage for each flight is different, the calculations change. If you go and look at the previous flown flights credit, they'll have been recalculated to be lower.