xliioper

P/A/G fare classes are used by DL for DL Premium Select fares and book into Premium Economy class of service when booked as a DL codeshared, partner operated flight. As noted above, since it's DL coded it will earn miles/MQD's based on spend and not miles flown.

In2ishn

My last VS flights, also DL coded A class, took 9 days each to credit.

Try to relax, my dude.

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CatchFlightsNotFeelings

It takes a while for mid-cabin VS flights to credit to SkyMiles, IME

skydelt

My recent VS flight required a manual credit request for some reason even though it showed up as a flown flight on my SkyMiles account. If it doesn't automatically post, just reach out to Delta and they'll take care of it.

ryw

On my round trip VS Flight over the summer (booked through VS, credited to DL), one way it took about a week to post, the other way I had to manually request credit (by submitting my ticket number).

It’d be helpful to know when the OP’s flight was, and when they look at their recent sky miles activity, is the flight listed (with 0 miles), or is it completely missing?

CPMaverick

DL flights sometimes credit as zero miles before they update with the actual miles. It's in the fine print that it is calculating, but it does cause some personality types to fly off the handle... They'd be better off just waiting to post them until it's done.

flyerCO

It also causes worry when theres a change to a ticket with previously credited segments. The previously credited segments will switch to zero and processing. This is due to needing to redistribute MQD/RDM based on rebooked ticket. Freaks people out thinking they lost credit for the segments.

RaflW

I flew VS metal on a DL ticket MAN-ATL the other day. It took a few days to post, unlike DL segments that post almost immediately now.

But my concern is about the RDMs that posted (and the fare attributed to the segment). Delta processed the flight segment as if the underlying fare paid was about $185. In Premium Economy! The outbound on DL metal, DTW-AMS the fare allocation was over $350 in econ / V fare. Seems wrong that I 'paid' nearly double for an economy V segment compared to a PE / G fare segment.

If I look at the ticket receipt, my total fare paid was $450 base fare + $400 surcharge (fuel, I assume). But when I add up all the segments posted fare/miles, it works out to about $707. My previous trip a few weeks earlier (also to Europe but different cities), all DL metal / V fares, the base fare was $483 + fuel $350. Redeemable miles posted after travel exactly matched the $833. Note, this is all fare, not about taxes (of which there were a lot on the VS flight. I know I don't get miles on any of the taxes. Also, thankfully, the more important MQMs posted correctly.)

1,647 redeemable miles isn't a huge deal. But it seems particularly weird to me that the fare + surcharge totals don't add up to what I paid on the DL/VS trip, and that the Virgin flight in a higher cabin is attributed at such a paltry fare. I wrote in to Delta this evening, the auto reply suggested it may take a while to get an answer.

BenA

If you upgraded your flight, it likely posted as an award fare class that isn't subject to earning credit, but that isn't accurate. Submit your original receipt to Delta and request mileage credit, and it should get fixed (although it may take up to a month if they are slow responding.)

CPMaverick

Was the flight number DL or VS? If VS will post based on distance.

flyerCO

See my post here - https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/31646393-post2.html for info on how DL distributes earnings for DL coded flights.

VS/partner coded of course are straightforward as they earn strictly based on distance of the one segment.

RaflW

Thanks for the replies! It was DL 4354. Based on the miles flown DTW-AMS was 3,940, and MAN-ATL was 4,098. Total of all flight miles on ticket 9.975 (three shorter hops on the ticket).
As I said upthread, I believe the full MQDs should have been $890. There were also abt $335 in taxes, since there was a UK duty involved. MQDs posted = $707.

Seg 1 - 528 mqms - $48
Seg 2 - 3940 mqm - $352
Seg 3 - 503 mqm - $45
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Seg 4 - 6,147* mqm - $183 (*w/1.5 bonus)
Seg 5 - 906 mqm - $79

The three first segments add up to exactly half the non-tax fare. If I get pushback form DL on my request, I'll use this info to press my case. If I needed MQMs I'd be even more firm about it. Hopefully DL will just make good. I mean, my bag was late so I got 2,500 miles, and I'm only asking for another ~1,650.

MSPeconomist

DL 4XXX TATL would be a codeshare, DL marketed but operated by a partner, probably KLM.