Miles & More (Lufthansa, Austrian, Swiss, and other partners) - Minimum Miles per Sector

Question:
Has there been any change in the minimum miles that one gets when using the Star partners.
As examples for flights taken lately - Dec 03:
SK ARN(STO) - Kiruna - ARN - each way 580 actual miles - I have received the 580 miles + SEN 25 % booked in H.
SQ ZRH - MAN - ZRH each way 627 miles - I have received 1881 miles + SEN 25 % booked in F.
I thought min miles would have been 1000 in H and 3000 in F + SEN 25 % respectively.

Has there been a change recently that I have missed in terms of mileage policy - meaning has LH taken away the min sectors ?

Cheers

Thomas

I scratched my head in wonder too recently:

I have flown CPH-ARN/BMA(STO) atleast 12 times last year as part of various MUC-STO tickets and on my last time DEC 20 I suddenly received 1000 miles plus bonus instead of the usual measly 500+bonus intra scandinavian miles.

Either the link M&M to SAS has changed or someone was on christmas holiday...


Regards Oliver

I think the calculation for minimum miles is as follows: If (miles actually flown x class factor) is less than 1.000 (or 2.000 in J) you will be credited at least 1.000 (or 2.000 in J) if you flew LH/EW OS. There is to my knowledge nowhere a statement that there would be 3.000 minimum miles in F nor that there are any minimum miles when flying with other *A partners. So it seems to me correct...


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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by tcswede:
SQ ZRH - MAN - ZRH each way 627 miles - I have received 1881 miles + SEN 25 % booked in F.
I thought min miles would have been 1000 in H and 3000 in F + SEN 25 % respectively.

Has there been a change recently that I have missed in terms of mileage policy - meaning has LH taken away the min sectors ?

Cheers

Thomas</font>

1000 minimum miles is not valid for all Star alliance partners.
Minimum miles for Singapore Airlines are 500 status miles in Y (some classes in Y on SQ don't earn miles at all) for flights under 500 miles since a long time. That means 1000 status miles in C and 1500 status miles in F. Flights with more than 500 miles earn the actual mileage.

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[This message has been edited by LH738 (edited Jan 12, 2004).]

dupe. sorry

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by W Nippert:
I think the calculation for minimum miles is as follows: If (miles actually flown x class factor) is less than 1.000 (or 2.000 in J) you will be credited at least 1.000 (or 2.000 in J) if you flew LH/EW OS. There is to my knowledge nowhere a statement that there would be 3.000 minimum miles in F nor that there are any minimum miles when flying with other *A partners. So it seems to me correct...
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Have not flown in the US on UA since Oct 03, but at least then it was 3000 miles minimum if flying F irrespectable of distance - as long as below 1000 actual flight miles.

Called SEN hotline and LH M&M who both told me it should be 3000 minimum - and can not explain why it does not show up as such.

It is not a major deal - as I needed the two segments to complete my qualification for SQ PPS, but still it would be a disturbing trend if they were to cut the points - especially in the US, where often the distance can be less than 1000 actual miles.

Cheers

Thomas

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by tcswede:
Have not flown in the US on UA since Oct 03, but at least then it was 3000 miles minimum if flying F irrespectable of distance - as long as below 1000 actual flight miles.

Called SEN hotline and LH M&M who both told me it should be 3000 minimum - and can not explain why it does not show up as such.

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If flying UA you still earn a minimum of 3000 miles in F. SQ credits a minimum of 500 in Y, 1000 in C and 1500 in F.

BTW Once I had to credit an airrail segment in C to my AC account and earned just 625 miles...THAT hurts!

Old but most infos should still be up-to-date: Minimum Miles on *A carriers (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum32/HTML/001887.html). I will update it shortly.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by curt:
Old but most infos should still be up-to-date: Minimum Miles on *A carriers (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum32/HTML/001887.html). I will update it shortly.</font>

Hi Curt,
had missed your thread - I went by what I was told by the two LH phone references - I have now checked the LH website - and your listing is correct for SQ whereas UA/US is twice the minimum amount - what is the logic behind that. Is it because the service / seating level is better with SQ than UA/US that LH wants to compensate the poor travellers on UA/US http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif especially considering that US is new on the block.

Cheers

Thomas