Delta won't refund Amex MR miles to Amex. What to do?
Jun 21, 2018, 2:03 am
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TA has zero power to force an airline to confirm space. The TA would eventually stop offering for sale flights on airlines who regularly did this. This is basically the only cure to the problem, not let you book CZ at all.
Jun 21, 2018, 2:12 am
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In the end though each airline, on its own time, fixed their interface with CA (to make their ticket stick to the CA PNR). Something that DL clearly is disinterested in doing here with CZ (it is in DL's interest not to let its customers use SkyMiles for non-DL flights, after all). It's a bit different underlying issue here, but the same logic applies.
Jun 21, 2018, 8:05 am
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If it was one airline yes. The comment I posted after was more general about "how airlines work". So if they stopped offering for sale flights on airlines in general because they all work that way, then they'd be out of business... Or just have to sell cruises.
Jun 21, 2018, 6:56 pm
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"It's a business decision."
"Priorities."
That is how DL looks at it. DL is an entity and not a person, so by the whole nature of that it is not capable of intentional malice. But that is sure what it may feel like to customers, especially in cases where transferring SkyMiles in from an external source for a specific booking.
"Priorities."
That is how DL looks at it. DL is an entity and not a person, so by the whole nature of that it is not capable of intentional malice. But that is sure what it may feel like to customers, especially in cases where transferring SkyMiles in from an external source for a specific booking.
Jun 21, 2018, 7:27 pm
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"It's a business decision."
"Priorities."
That is how DL looks at it. DL is an entity and not a person, so by the whole nature of that it is not capable of intentional malice. But that is sure what it may feel like to customers, especially in cases where transferring SkyMiles in from an external source for a specific booking.
"Priorities."
That is how DL looks at it. DL is an entity and not a person, so by the whole nature of that it is not capable of intentional malice. But that is sure what it may feel like to customers, especially in cases where transferring SkyMiles in from an external source for a specific booking.
Jun 21, 2018, 8:49 pm
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Jun 21, 2018, 9:35 pm
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Thanks!
That must be also why in some other languages companies are, literally, known a "legal persons" if translated literally to English (which I've always found odd, but if a company is fully = to a person in the eyes of the law, makes sense).
Last edited by RealHJ; Jun 21, 2018 at 9:44 pm