Can i buy to seats on a flight?? and if i do, do i get double miles?
Dec 2, 2012, 10:06 am
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Do you mean if you purchase more than one seat?
IIRC, a person purchasing two seats for themselves can get 2x redeemable miles (I think I've seen this posted before), but only 1x MQMs.
EDIT: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...ne-person.html seems to continue the debate of whether or not RDMs are earned on the second seat...anyone have any thoughts?
IIRC, a person purchasing two seats for themselves can get 2x redeemable miles (I think I've seen this posted before), but only 1x MQMs.
EDIT: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/delta...ne-person.html seems to continue the debate of whether or not RDMs are earned on the second seat...anyone have any thoughts?
Last edited by rwoman; Dec 2, 2012 at 10:12 am
Dec 2, 2012, 10:17 am
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Okay, per dl.com, the answer is NO.
Mileage Credit Rules & Conditions
Mileage Credit Rules & Conditions
Mileage credit will not be given for the following:
-Refunded, void, or unused tickets, including unused nonrefundable tickets.
- Airline employees, travel agents, tour conductors, and/or other persons traveling on a nonrevenue basis or travel industry/cargo customer discount fares
- Infants (under age two) traveling without paying an applicable fare. (Mileage will be credited to the accounts of infants traveling on a ticket purchased at the applicable fare)
- Free tickets of any kind, including without limitation SkyMiles Award tickets and tickets received in exchange for a Delta transportation voucher
- Tickets purchased to carry excess baggage such as musical instruments and pets or to provide extra space for the primary passenger
- Delta charter flights
- Tickets issued at fares subject to rules that exclude the earning of mileage credit for the fare. Fares excluded from earning mileage credit frequently change, particularly on partner airlines. You should always check with Delta, the issuing carrier or your travel agent at the time of booking to ensure that the fare you are purchasing qualifies for mileage credit.
- Bookings made through some Internet sites as described at those sites, including without limitation tickets purchased through Priceline.com
- SkyMiles can not be earned on flights to/from Cuba
- Pay with Miles Tickets including MQM accrual
-Refunded, void, or unused tickets, including unused nonrefundable tickets.
- Airline employees, travel agents, tour conductors, and/or other persons traveling on a nonrevenue basis or travel industry/cargo customer discount fares
- Infants (under age two) traveling without paying an applicable fare. (Mileage will be credited to the accounts of infants traveling on a ticket purchased at the applicable fare)
- Free tickets of any kind, including without limitation SkyMiles Award tickets and tickets received in exchange for a Delta transportation voucher
- Tickets purchased to carry excess baggage such as musical instruments and pets or to provide extra space for the primary passenger
- Delta charter flights
- Tickets issued at fares subject to rules that exclude the earning of mileage credit for the fare. Fares excluded from earning mileage credit frequently change, particularly on partner airlines. You should always check with Delta, the issuing carrier or your travel agent at the time of booking to ensure that the fare you are purchasing qualifies for mileage credit.
- Bookings made through some Internet sites as described at those sites, including without limitation tickets purchased through Priceline.com
- SkyMiles can not be earned on flights to/from Cuba
- Pay with Miles Tickets including MQM accrual
Dec 2, 2012, 10:25 am
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Also worth keeping in mind the recent story of the cellist whose accounts were closed because the 2nd seat for the cello was credited to a SM account.
Dec 2, 2012, 10:28 am
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However, part of that story was that the cellist in question had a separate FF account for the cello, while other cellists were being told to phone DL after travel and request redeemable miles for their cellos' travels.
Interesting expression.
Dec 2, 2012, 11:15 am
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Dec 2, 2012, 11:28 am
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Illegal, how? It helps you. You know how your boss cuts a deal with the hotel, and even though you're the one away from home and stuck in a hotel room...your boss picks up all the chips (rebates, points, etc) for the hotel loyalty benefits? You want your boss or company to also pick up all the frequent flyer miles when they buy you an airline seat and send you to outer east elbow? There are lots of things broken about Delta Skymiles. This rule is not one of them. The person who is in the seat should get the miles. The person who is not in the seat should NOT get the miles. Made-up persons such as cellos sure as heck shouldn't be getting miles and competing with real people for the very limited redemptions out there...
Dec 2, 2012, 1:40 pm
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No company pays for my flights bro... 100% out of my pocket... If i want to pay for 2 seats... why should i not be allowed to get miles?? i do not understand any logic to the contrary. If I pay money for a ticket, I should receive MQM miles
ALSO... I am not referring to made up people.. i am saying i should be allowed to buy 2 seats in my own name if I wish and get the miles
ALSO... I am not referring to made up people.. i am saying i should be allowed to buy 2 seats in my own name if I wish and get the miles
Dec 2, 2012, 1:58 pm
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No company pays for my flights bro... 100% out of my pocket... If i want to pay for 2 seats... why should i not be allowed to get miles?? i do not understand any logic to the contrary. If I pay money for a ticket, I should receive MQM miles
ALSO... I am not referring to made up people.. i am saying i should be allowed to buy 2 seats in my own name if I wish and get the miles
ALSO... I am not referring to made up people.. i am saying i should be allowed to buy 2 seats in my own name if I wish and get the miles
YOU can always take your business elsewhere if you so choose...
Dec 2, 2012, 9:30 pm
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Although this doesn't apply to your case of personal-paid trips, if we switched the FFP to accrue points for the purchaser and not the traveler, planes would be full of lots of unhappy businesspeople and HQ offices would be homes to 1 or 2 beaming admin assistants.
Dec 2, 2012, 10:49 pm
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Which is quite different from saying the person/company that bought the ticket should get the miles. (there is some validty to that concept, which is why DL has SkyBonus, etc.)