Delta business/first leg -- booked into Z fare bucket -- rerouting on an Alaska award
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Does anyone who is reading this know why a rerouting initiated at the gate by Alaska, on an Alaska award ticket, which saw me put on a Delta flight instead of Alaska or one of its partners, wouldn't earn SkyMiles? I ask because Delta flat-out refused me any mileage or flight credit. The fare bucket for the Delta leg is Z, so it looks like it should earn mileage/flight credit. The ticket remained an Alaska ticket, though, issued with an Alaska ticket number.

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Delta has treated such interline transfers from non-partners as mileage ineligible for some time now. Flight must be ticketed by DL or a DL partner in order to earn miles.
Last edited by xliioper; Jul 6, 19 at 1:58 pm

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I'm curious if they did this due to complexities in awarding mileage now that they're earned per $. I'm betting DL got tired of awarding mileage based on what was paid to OAL when getting paid less by OAL.

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This was 2 years ago, I've had experience in the reverse order getting credit on both airlines, but that was between DL and UA on a paid ticket that DL endorsed to UA. DL gave me ORC and UA gave me the equivalent of a $49 fare, much less than my segment had actually cost.

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This was 2 years ago, I've had experience in the reverse order getting credit on both airlines, but that was between DL and UA on a paid ticket that DL endorsed to UA. DL gave me ORC and UA gave me the equivalent of a $49 fare, much less than my segment had actually cost.

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Would another airline possibly accept credit for this Z class ticket?

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As this has been cross posted in AS and is really an AS issue, please follow the discussion in the AS forum.
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Ryandc99, Moderator Delta Air Lines
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