MQM/MQD Award Accelerator not showing since the beginning of the year.
Mar 20, 2022, 2:20 pm
#1
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MQM/MQD Award Accelerator not showing since the beginning of the year.
Had a bunch of flights since the beginning of 2022 and not one of them had the Award Accelerator factored in, just the basic MQM/MQD (2021 was fine).
My wife who was also on all reservations didn’t get hers either. Has that happened to anyone else?
*I don’t keep track of MQS but I assume it’s the same
My wife who was also on all reservations didn’t get hers either. Has that happened to anyone else?
*I don’t keep track of MQS but I assume it’s the same
Mar 20, 2022, 2:41 pm
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Were these award tickets, not including pay-with-miles? My 2022 award tickets have earned MQMs and MQDs as expected, even the numbers on delta.dumb seem to be wrong and my boarding passes say "no FF credit."
Mar 20, 2022, 2:47 pm
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Had a bunch of flights since the beginning of 2022 and not one of them had the Award Accelerator factored in, just the basic MQM/MQD (2021 was fine).
My wife who was also on all reservations didn’t get hers either. Has that happened to anyone else?
*I don’t keep track of MQS but I assume it’s the same
My wife who was also on all reservations didn’t get hers either. Has that happened to anyone else?
*I don’t keep track of MQS but I assume it’s the same
Last edited by xliioper; Mar 20, 2022 at 8:04 pm
Mar 21, 2022, 12:22 pm
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Does anyone have a link to the award ticket earning information page? I just recently booked a handful of award flights and the agent helping me apply some GUC's on the phone said award tickets are back to pre covid rules: they don't earn any MQM's or MQD's. I double checked the website and the earning chart says the same so I cancelled and repurchased them as all cash + miles tickets (and ultimately used about 40k more SkyMiles in the process because I want to earn the MQM's). If straight up award tickets are still earning MQM's and MQD's then I'll definitely go through the process of cancelling and repurchasing again. Just need confirmation. Thanks.
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Mar 21, 2022, 12:37 pm
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Does anyone have a link to the award ticket earning information page? I just recently booked a handful of award flights and the agent helping me apply some GUC's on the phone said award tickets are back to pre covid rules: they don't earn any MQM's or MQD's. I double checked the website and the earning chart says the same so I cancelled and repurchased them as all cash + miles tickets (and ultimately used about 40k more SkyMiles in the process because I want to earn the MQM's). If straight up award tickets are still earning MQM's and MQD's then I'll definitely go through the process of cancelling and repurchasing again. Just need confirmation. Thanks.
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"And now, earn toward Status on Award Travel and Miles + Cash tickets through December 31, 2022. Terms apply."
Normally, neither Awards nor Miles + Cash tickets earn anything towards status (only Pay with Miles flights earned MQM/MQS/MQD credit prior to Covid with MQD only awarded on cash portion). Pay with Miles is not the same thing as Miles + Cash.
Last edited by xliioper; Mar 21, 2022 at 12:43 pm
Mar 21, 2022, 12:40 pm
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Data point: A week ago, I earned MQMs and MQDs on an award ticket automatically as expected.
Mar 21, 2022, 1:06 pm
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1) The Accelerator (meaning you earn 1.5 to 1.75 normal SkyMiles on both award and cash tickets) ended on December 31, 2021.
2) Earning MQM, MQS and MQD on Award flights for was extended into 2022. These flights earn a “normal” 1x (it is confusing because there never was non-accelerated earnings on award flights before 2021)
3) I had an award flight recently and applied an RUC to one leg. I automatically received MQM. Agents are probably confusing all of this as well. Normal award flights earn MQM in 2022
2) Earning MQM, MQS and MQD on Award flights for was extended into 2022. These flights earn a “normal” 1x (it is confusing because there never was non-accelerated earnings on award flights before 2021)
3) I had an award flight recently and applied an RUC to one leg. I automatically received MQM. Agents are probably confusing all of this as well. Normal award flights earn MQM in 2022
Mar 21, 2022, 3:02 pm
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2) My FC award ticket earned 150% MQMs and one MQD per hundred RDMs used. I never pay attention to MQSs.
Mar 21, 2022, 3:18 pm
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Last year, the same booking would have gotten 262.5% MQMs (normal 150% first class bonus times the 175% accelerator) while the MQD would have been 1.75 MQD per hundred RDMs used
Mar 21, 2022, 3:25 pm
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I know. I took advantage of that on several tickets (but it didn't matter and I just became an extended DM). Sadly, those days are gone, although I still like being able to earn MQMs and MQDs on award tickets this year.