Originally Posted by
ktkw
How do airlines deal with MPM and shorter flights. e.g. trying to book ICN-HKG r/t which is around 1284 miles each way which at 1.25x is 1605. However, this invalidates a simple routing like ICN-NRT-HKG-ICN. as ICn-NRT-HKG > 1605mi. Will US airways let me ticket ICN-NRT-HKG-NRT-ICN? and if so what about ICN-NRT-PEK-HKG-ICN
I'm not sure why you're doing the calculations they are doing because those numbers are meaningless. You cannot calculate MPM...you can only look it up...if you have access to a tool with MPM data.
The MPM+25% for ICN-HKG is 1942 miles.