Using Pay With Miles, Do you Get MQM?
Apr 14, 2011, 7:32 am
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Apr 14, 2011, 7:33 am
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No and No.
http://www.delta.com/skymiles/use_mi...iles/index.jsp
Originally Posted by Delta.com
Tickets purchased with full or partial Pay with Miles redemptions are not eligible for mileage accrual, mileage upgrades, Platinum Systemwide Upgrade Certificates.
Apr 14, 2011, 7:33 am
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You do not receive MQMs for a PWM flight, nor do you receive MQMs for a flight taken with an award ticket.
Best route here would be to order up some of those AmEx giftcards from the SkyMiles Marketplace and use those to pay for your ticket. At 11,000 miles/$100 (I assume you have a Delta AmEx as PWM would not be an option otherwise), it is an almost identical exchange as PWM and you get MQMs.
Best route here would be to order up some of those AmEx giftcards from the SkyMiles Marketplace and use those to pay for your ticket. At 11,000 miles/$100 (I assume you have a Delta AmEx as PWM would not be an option otherwise), it is an almost identical exchange as PWM and you get MQMs.
Apr 14, 2011, 7:39 am
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You do not receive MQMs for a PWM flight, nor do you receive MQMs for a flight taken with an award ticket.
Best route here would be to order up some of those AmEx giftcards from the SkyMiles Marketplace and use those to pay for your ticket. At 11,000 miles/$100 (I assume you have a Delta AmEx as PWM would not be an option otherwise), it is an almost identical exchange as PWM and you get MQMs.
Best route here would be to order up some of those AmEx giftcards from the SkyMiles Marketplace and use those to pay for your ticket. At 11,000 miles/$100 (I assume you have a Delta AmEx as PWM would not be an option otherwise), it is an almost identical exchange as PWM and you get MQMs.
Apr 14, 2011, 8:01 am
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You do not receive MQMs for a PWM flight, nor do you receive MQMs for a flight taken with an award ticket.
Best route here would be to order up some of those AmEx giftcards from the SkyMiles Marketplace and use those to pay for your ticket. At 11,000 miles/$100 (I assume you have a Delta AmEx as PWM would not be an option otherwise), it is an almost identical exchange as PWM and you get MQMs.
Best route here would be to order up some of those AmEx giftcards from the SkyMiles Marketplace and use those to pay for your ticket. At 11,000 miles/$100 (I assume you have a Delta AmEx as PWM would not be an option otherwise), it is an almost identical exchange as PWM and you get MQMs.
Apr 14, 2011, 8:06 am
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cautionary note
Eg, you and Mr(s?) AeonKing are planning to fly togther, at $1000 per ticket, a.in. So a total of $2000.
So you think "I will get miles, and part PWM for Mr(s) AeonKing's ticket?"
Nope, even though you are paying $1500 cash and mentally using $500 worth of your miles "for Mr/s Aeonking's ticket", neither will get miles.
Of course if you book on separate bookings/PNRs, you then get into a whole different debate about separate PNRs when flying together, but that is discussed exhaustively elsewhere.
Apr 14, 2011, 8:28 am
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No. And caution! What is more, that applies to all on the same booking.
Eg, you and Mr(s?) AeonKing are planning to fly togther, at $1000 per ticket, a.in. So a total of $2000.
So you think "I will get miles, and part PWM for Mr(s) AeonKing's ticket?"
Nope, even though you are paying $1500 cash and mentally using $500 worth of your miles "for Mr/s Aeonking's ticket", neither will get miles.
Of course if you book on separate bookings/PNRs, you then get into a whole different debate about separate PNRs when flying together, but that is discussed exhaustively elsewhere.
Eg, you and Mr(s?) AeonKing are planning to fly togther, at $1000 per ticket, a.in. So a total of $2000.
So you think "I will get miles, and part PWM for Mr(s) AeonKing's ticket?"
Nope, even though you are paying $1500 cash and mentally using $500 worth of your miles "for Mr/s Aeonking's ticket", neither will get miles.
Of course if you book on separate bookings/PNRs, you then get into a whole different debate about separate PNRs when flying together, but that is discussed exhaustively elsewhere.
Apr 14, 2011, 9:07 am
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BTW - one way around this is to book a refundable ticket using PWM. After the 24-hour cancellation period is up, you can cancel your flight. Instead of refunding your miles, DL will issue you an ECV - which can be used to book a flight which accrues miles and MQM.
Apr 14, 2011, 9:29 am
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you beat me to it. this is definitely the way to do things...
Apr 14, 2011, 9:47 am
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(1) you have to wait at least a few weeks to get refund (see for example here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...xperience.html) and
(2) they may refund $$ and miles, not issuing eCV. I know refund by miles contradicts their published rules, but is happened.
I would use AmEx Gift Cards to eliminate headache with refund, including multiple calls to DL CSC.
Apr 14, 2011, 9:56 am
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Apr 14, 2011, 12:21 pm
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Could you explain this a tad more? I assume that you mean they refund at the $.01/mile that they originally subtracted