Originally Posted by
deasine
I have a question regarding mile redemption on different types of booking classes. I'm putting together a rather complicated itinerary right now, designed to maximize the number of miles I can squeeze on this trip to bring me to Diamond status. I'm hoping to do this before my next trip in the summer.
YYZ-LHR is codeshare on LH operated by AC on L Booking Class. Now would this follow the rules under LH or AC? Following the redemption chart, if this follows the rules under LH, then I don't earn any miles on this leg. But if it's on AC, I earn 100% miles.
Similarly, I have a flight out of LHR to EWR codeshare on LH operated by CO on K Booking Class. Similarly, it's 100% on CO, but 0 miles on LH.
Anyone had any similar experiences? Is there an email or phone number I can call to confirm?
Many thanks for everyone's help. Cheers!
Within *A the miles you get depend on the booking class of the operating carrier. Before you get excited, in your example you have a L booking class from LH. However, this does not mean that the corresponding AC booking class is also L. It might be something completely different. AC will map the LH marketing booking classes onto their own but how this mapping is done is not public. So you would need to call AC and try to find out.
On TATL routes, the carriers you mention have aligned booking classes so there is hope that a L at LH is an L at AC. But no guarantee.
The M&M board is trying to compile a list of code share booking classes. This can be found here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...ncomplete.html