Status Flight Segments - how many?
Aug 14, 2005, 1:10 am
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Status Flight Segments - how many?
Probably another one of the endless Newbie dumb questions, but how does one calculate how many Status Segments are obtained from a certain flight? Is it as simple as each 1000 miles is equivalent to one Status Segement (so Sydney to vancouver would be 7790 miles = 7 segment equivalents)?
Aug 14, 2005, 1:26 am
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A status segment consists of a segment flown--there is no mileage equivalent. So, for example, if you flew YVR-YYZ-YUL (assuming YVR-YYZ and YYZ-YUL have different flight numbers) on a qualifying fare, you get two segments. In your example, SYD-YVR, you would get one segment, even though there is a stop in HNL (I assume you're talking about AC 034).
Last edited by ylwae; Aug 14, 2005 at 1:31 am
Aug 14, 2005, 12:49 pm
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Originally Posted by traveller1971
Probably another one of the endless Newbie dumb questions, but how does one calculate how many Status Segments are obtained from a certain flight? Is it as simple as each 1000 miles is equivalent to one Status Segement (so Sydney to vancouver would be 7790 miles = 7 segment equivalents)?
For example a route that goes YYZ-LAX direct is 1 status Segment and 2173 status miles.
Going YYZ-LAX via YYC and YVR yields 3 status segments and ~3000 miles if each of the flights from YYZ-YYC and YYC-YVR and YVR-LAX are separate flight numbers.
If the flight went YYZ-YVR and landed at YYC as a station stop, then the trip would only be 2 status segments because there would only be a single flight number from YYZ-YVR.
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