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Old Nov 2, 2009 | 2:24 pm
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Bitterroot
 
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It's always the "tariff miles" that govern FF miles and points -- they are only roughly approximate to the actual distances shown on Great Circle Routing maps, and even less comparable to the actual mileage flown on a given flight (which is almost always longer than the GCR).

So, in this case, the roundtrip tariff miles = 19,066, the figure you have from SQ. That's vanilla Y -- no bonus miles, but a fare that accrues 100% of the tariff miles for every mile flown as its FF earn.

The VS mileage might reflect a discounted economy fare. Many such fare buckets do not earn 1 mile credit for every mile flown.

We'd have to know more to answer that. Keep in mind that VS doesn't actually fly LHR - SIN: it's a code-share on SQ. But I don't know if that would help account for the difference in FF credits.
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