Miles Granted on Award Flight?
Nov 21, 2007, 9:38 am
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Miles Granted on Award Flight?
I'm certain this is a silly question to all of you who travel so much but I am a newbie. 
I've just booked my first 2 award tickets for trips in April (OAK-JAN) and May (SFO-BZN). Do you earn miles on flights for while you are traveling via an awards ticket? My guess is no but it never hurts to ask. I am just curious if the miles I will be flying will count towards my medallion miles status.
I've just booked my first 2 award tickets for trips in April (OAK-JAN) and May (SFO-BZN). Do you earn miles on flights for while you are traveling via an awards ticket? My guess is no but it never hurts to ask. I am just curious if the miles I will be flying will count towards my medallion miles status.
Nov 21, 2007, 9:46 am
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Sometimes if there are irrops and you get rebooked, the agent will rebook you into Y or J or whatnot. certainly nothing to count on...
Nov 21, 2007, 9:47 am
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That's what I assumed. Thanks!
Nov 21, 2007, 10:40 am
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I've had a few (50% maybe?) VDBs on award tickets rebooked into Y... I've even had one award SDC rebook into Y. I've never asked to be rebooked into Y but will in the future... on VDB or IDB I'll probably ask to be rebooked into F first, then Y.
Nov 21, 2007, 10:43 am
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SDC rebooked in Y
Hubby was on an awart ticket this summer and did SDC for a more convenient flight. Fees were waived as he is GM. Ended up rebooking him in Y and he got miles/bonus miles for award travel.
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Nov 21, 2007, 10:53 am
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Nov 21, 2007, 11:22 am
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Nov 21, 2007, 11:28 am
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I think it all depends on availability in any given fare bucket at any given time along with the knowledge/experience/mood of the GA at the time. It seems on the SDC method you're nearly 0% likely of getting rebooked into a different fare class if you do it over the phone but somewhere between 25% - 50% likely to have it occur at the airport (not sure how ticket desk vs. gate agent affects the likelihood).
Nov 21, 2007, 12:43 pm
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I agree IsleofMan...had a similar award ticket experience where I switched flights and the boarding pass said Y, but I got no miles. Ive NEVER had that happen where the fare class on the boarding pass didnt affect the activity in my mileage statement. If I see, N,R,X, etc. I know Ill see no miles, but paid fare basis codes, I generally see them. Maybe this was just an anomaly or is there a way for them to control it sometimes?
Nov 21, 2007, 1:34 pm
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If I had a BP in hand that said Y or any other mileage-acruable fare code I would atleast try to get DL to credit you. It never hurts to ask.
Nov 21, 2007, 2:03 pm
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Yea, but when you SDC on an award ticket, it still says No FF Credit under your name while saying Y in the fare code box, thus the contradiction!
Nov 21, 2007, 4:22 pm
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Nov 22, 2007, 1:23 pm
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No, award flights do not generate any miles/MQM's.
Also, Medalion upgrades do not give you additional miles for F class.
Also, Medalion upgrades do not give you additional miles for F class.
Dec 18, 2007, 6:42 pm
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Just did two SDCs off of revenue tickets and both were booked back into original fare class. This is the norm when you do it over the phone, but often at the airport they put you into Y. Both times, this did not happen. And one time, the agent said to another agent that they arent allowed to IP or OB anymore. I assume the latter means Overbook, but what does IP mean. And have there been new rules put in place (perhaps because of our "blabbering" on FT) that prevent agents from rebooking into Y without the appropriate Y fare being paid?