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Old Jan 6, 2014 | 10:05 am
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GroundStop
 
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: SFO
Programs: UA Premier Platinum (and falling fast)
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How is YQ split across segments?

Here's my most recent experience:

PHP Code:
Fare Breakdown        
Airfare:                                    606.00 USD
  Breakdown from Saudi site:        
    SFO-IAH-LHR (VKX4NCE) - flown Dec 13    290.50    
    LHR-ORD-SFO (VKX4NCE) - flown Jan 14    290.50    
    LON-SFO - flown Jan 14                   25.00
U.S. Customs User Fee:                        5.50    
U.S. Immigration User Fee:                    7.00    
U.S. APHIS User Fee:                          5.00    
U.S. Federal Transportation Tax:             34.40    
September 11th.Security Fee:                  7.50    
U.K. Air Passenger Duty:                    107.00    
U.K. Passenger Service Charge:               63.50    
International Surcharge:                    458.00    
U.S. Passenger Facility Charge:              12.00    
Per Person Total:                          1305.90 USD 


The SFO-IAH-LHR leg was flown in 2013, so I was curious as to the PQDs that would be apportioned for LHR-ORD-SFO - the airfare part is relatively simple to calculate given the $290.50 + $25.00 breakdown from the Saudi website, but I wasn't sure how the "International Surcharge" would be broken down. Given the routing was different on the outbound v. return, would they simply halve the surcharge or calculate it some other way?

Simply halving the surcharge would give me $544.5 PQDs ($290.5 + $25 + $229), but looking at my MP+ statement, I received the following PQDs:

LHR-ORD $357
ORD-SFO $199
Total: $556

.....so there seems to be some slight calculation ($11.50) in my favor
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