Originally Posted by
craz
No if You are FIMed over say from UA to AA, and you had an El Cheapo UA needs to book You in "Y" and they pay AA for that tkt, thats besides what they give You,
The airlines pay each other a "set" rate per flight mile. It's usually not full "Y", but rest assured that it is FAR more than the el-cheapo fare that most passengers pay.
One time, I was so mad at DL for a supposed "mechanical problem" (just total and complete incompentence all day long and substantial evidence that they "stole" our plane to go somewhere else) that I demanded to be re-booked on a slightly earlier AA flight because I knew that they would have to pay AA a significant amount of money.