Do upsells to First earn additional MQM's and MQD's ?
Aug 29, 2018, 11:24 am
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Probably a stupid question, but on itineraries with more than one traveler, if you pay to upgrade both, each person gets half of the total dollars spent as MQDs, right? Or does the person purchasing the upgrades get them all? I'm pretty sure it's the former, but was hoping not as my wife is like $180 short of one of the thresholds and we have an offer to upgrade for $110 per person. Another complicating factor, it's a companion ticket booking, so I don't think I can even earn MQDs or MQMs on my ticket, so the upgrade would be wasted on me for those purposes and my wife would still be about $70 short. Thanks!
Aug 29, 2018, 11:45 am
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MQDs always go to the person flying, not the person buying.
They are not a measure of how much a particular person has spent. They (for the most part) are a measure of the cost of the tickets that a particular person has flown.
They are not a measure of how much a particular person has spent. They (for the most part) are a measure of the cost of the tickets that a particular person has flown.
Aug 29, 2018, 1:23 pm
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MQDs aren't even a good measure of ticket cost as fares and carrier imposed fees are included but taxes and government imposed fees are not.
Aug 29, 2018, 2:32 pm
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Aug 29, 2018, 2:38 pm
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if you were going to pick a nit, you would have done better to point out that you can earn MQDs based on distance for some tickets. Being a measure of ticket cost and excluding taxes aren't really mutually exclusive activities since taxes aren't some random amount that get unpredictably added to the fare.
