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Old Mar 2, 2014 | 8:03 pm
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Originally Posted by vgb2001
Since upgrades have been so hard (at least for me) out of SAN, I have been using miles to discount first class tickets: for instance, $900 paid $409 + 50k skymiles. Does anyone know with new rule if I would earn miles based on the original fare ($900) or the discounted fare ($400)?
For 2015 tickets that are partial PWM, SMs are based on $ while MQMs are based on $+PWM.

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