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Old Apr 7, 2011 | 11:33 am
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Originally Posted by D582
What Academic is saying is if you book AC007 YYZ-YVR connecting to AC007 YVR-HKG, you will get miles for YYZ-YVR, and then YVR-HKG. However if you book it as a through flight, so AC007 YYZ-HKG via YVR, you will only get miles as if you flew non-stop YYZ-HKG.
Exactly. In the days before eUpgrades this was a good strategy for TAPC flight like AC033 if you didn't want to burn a cert on the initial segment when the second one was uncertain. Online, you can do this by using the multi-city option.
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