Originally Posted by
Palal
On intra-EU legs, LH has a YQ that's proportional to the number of legs flown. Since the fare itself is much less than the YQ this comes out to a per-leg pricing, discouraging flying with extra stops.
Per leg pricing is very common for travel passes---one coupon per segment is also an example of per-leg pricing.
Bulk of the cost of short haul flights is fuel for take of. Per segment YQ is better reflection of cost.
There is no indication that such pricing is motivated by the desire to curb mileage running.