FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - 2015 MileagePlus Change - RDMs Will Be Calculated by Spend, Not Distance

Jun 10, 2014, 9:13 am

#251

edcho

Join Date: May 2011

Posts: 5,814

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Originally Posted by c1mth0g

OK, I don't get this. For those of us who have been giving international premium class revenue to *A partners this actually nets us a lot more miles (and doesn't bring any more revenue to UA, no?)

For example, a round trip ticket on SQ from US to Asia in J is about $7k.
If this is booked on 016 ticket stock, I max out at 75k RDM (currently this only gets around 20k RDM).

So UA gives me over 50k RDM more miles.
UA gets nothing (revenue goes to SQ).
How much more can they make just because it's ticketed on 016?

UA gets some cut of the revenue because its 016. Or in other cases, they get the revenue no matter what ticket stock (JVs).