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Old Oct 25, 2024 | 4:42 am
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Cool Puzzled with MDQ earnings for award flights

Originally Posted by Adam1222
You are also correct that you will receive MQD for flights paid for with miles, at a rate of 1 MQD for every 100 miles spent.
Originally Posted by prgboy
I had no idea, thank you! This explains why I recently received quite a big sum of 150 MQDs for my 15.000 miles award ticket. Great!
Quoting this again, as I am still puzzled. It only worked for me once, when purchasing SAS flight CPH-PRG this month. I booked on the DL web site with 15.000 miles. Before booking, the Earning Estimator showed me: Miles: 0, MQD: 150. After booking, the pending status showed 150 MQDs -- and I did receive 150 MQDs about a week after the flight. OK, perfect, I am happy to see how it works.

But when I am trying to book the same SAS flight now on the DL app, again using 15.000 miles + taxes, it gives me Miles: 0, MQD: 0.
When I try to book an award flight with KL via AMS, for the same 15.000 miles, it shows me Miles: 0, MQD: 25.

Not that it matters to me right now (as I will not re-qualify for Gold next year anyway), but it is just another thing I wish were more transparent. I am puzzled.
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