Very cool trick, Cheltzel! Seems like there's still a lot to learn about what can be done with matrix and matrix2.

But the PPMs displayed for these European fares are largely meaningless, until we can weed out the "no mileage credit" classes--at least identifying the lowest class of travel that will yield some mileage in the M&M autocracy.

Using the "showPricePerMile=true" switch above, I returned a calendar of 200+ Euro fares, costing between 26-30 euro cents per mile (fairly pricey, compared to what many of us can get away with in North America). But NONE of them yield any mileage, even at that price.

Lufthansa, and their code-share partners, such as Austrian, have managed to exclude virtually all their less expensive fares from awarding any mileage credit, whatsoever. One must also open the "Details" of each booking on the far right of each round trip, to see the individual booking classes, and learn whether the flight was a code-share, on an even more tight-fisted partner (then double check the class awards on THAT airline).

If they refuse to distinguish themselves from the low fare carriers with some mileage credit, and mimic them in every other way, one shouldn't wonder why folks fill the trains and RyanAir/EasyJet flights, instead.

They have colluded to make it confusing, and expensive, to earn mileage on flights within Europe. Was hoping that, instead of paging back/forth, between *A pages for each of the partner airlines, to see which classes might yield some mileage return value, maybe someone had already done the legwork, and put a chart/primer in one place...

Thanks!!
Tom