Lowest Delta Fare Class does not earn MQMs? Yes It Does, Says Delta Air Lines
May 18, 2011, 8:26 am
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If you read through the thread (all 17pgs of it, hahaha) it is mentioned multiple times that an E fare has been around for a while and was previously a free ticket for promotional awards or skybonus travel. What is new is that E is now going to be used as a revenue ticket instead of free/award so all of the wording needs to be updated to reflect the new purpose of the fare bucket.
May 18, 2011, 8:40 am
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On the phone right now with a DM supervisor in Chisholm. She has made at least 3 calls to other parts of DL and here is here response:
"E fares will be the only Delta Revenue fare to not earn full mileage". "I have spoke to several people and they are telling me there will be an announcement soon on this"
"E fares will be the only Delta Revenue fare to not earn full mileage". "I have spoke to several people and they are telling me there will be an announcement soon on this"
Frankly, these days its the eqms that are more valuable to me on Delta than their already devalued Skymiles.
May 18, 2011, 10:43 am
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May 18, 2011, 12:26 pm
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I understand what you're saying on a micro level (each individual flight), but on a macro level that kind of thinking can quickly bankrupt an airline. Airline economics are indeed quite complex, but to boil it down, an airline (just like every business) must strive to maximise profit (and, by proxy, shareholder value); expenses are at least as important as the revenues. An extreme example would be buying up second-hand 744s to operate between ATL and DEN--they could probably sell lots of extra sLUT tickets on that plane, especially during winter months, which would definitely increase revenue--but that marginal revenue would come at much higher marginal cost, and would actually decrease profit.
May 18, 2011, 1:59 pm
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They just don't have the customer base to support the volume and diversity of routes and size of planes and scale of operations that make running an airline economical.
Turns out that the sLUT passengers are the stale bread that the tiny lucrative mold spores of BE profit need to grow on.
May 18, 2011, 2:02 pm
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I'm still holding out for some reduction in benefits in E class or even LUT. Holding my breath but I think it's 50/50 at this point.
May 18, 2011, 2:35 pm
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May 18, 2011, 2:43 pm
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I think I coined the frase " thin the ranks" on this thread and slept pretty well. I did fly ATL /SYD And arrived to see that the thread crescendoed with partial SMI announcement. So we are still in the dark on real facts.
I'm still holding out for some reduction in benefits in E class or even LUT. Holding my breath but I think it's 50/50 at this point.
I'm still holding out for some reduction in benefits in E class or even LUT. Holding my breath but I think it's 50/50 at this point.
May 18, 2011, 3:03 pm
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I guess we can say goodbye to the sLUT acronym to describe cheap fares... its time for fLUTE
May 18, 2011, 3:26 pm
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A lot of airlines have tried that. They refit a 737 with nothing but luxe business class seats, offer nice meals and attentive service and easy boarding to all the passengers with lots of freebies and fly routes like JFK-LHR or LAX-JFK. They usually peter out in a few months.
They just don't have the customer base to support the volume and diversity of routes and size of planes and scale of operations that make running an airline economical.
Turns out that the sLUT passengers are the stale bread that the tiny lucrative mold spores of BE profit need to grow on.
They just don't have the customer base to support the volume and diversity of routes and size of planes and scale of operations that make running an airline economical.
Turns out that the sLUT passengers are the stale bread that the tiny lucrative mold spores of BE profit need to grow on.
May 18, 2011, 3:40 pm
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May 18, 2011, 3:48 pm
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To bad it won't be before M, or we could have YUM Fares.
May 18, 2011, 5:53 pm
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May 18, 2011, 6:17 pm
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A lot of airlines have tried that. They refit a 737 with nothing but luxe business class seats, offer nice meals and attentive service and easy boarding to all the passengers with lots of freebies and fly routes like JFK-LHR or LAX-JFK. They usually peter out in a few months.
They just don't have the customer base to support the volume and diversity of routes and size of planes and scale of operations that make running an airline economical.
They just don't have the customer base to support the volume and diversity of routes and size of planes and scale of operations that make running an airline economical.