Originally Posted by adam.smith

There's no generic number of AQD for any given route and I'm not claiming that there is. The calculator doesn't tell you how much AQD you're going to earn in total, it helps you figure out how much AQD will be allocated to each segment after you tell it exactly what fare you paid and what segments you're flying.

So, let's say you buy an RTW touching NRT, YVR, FRA and NRT. Whether you buy this as NRT-YVR-FRA-BKK-NRT or YVR-FRA-BKK-NRT-YVR, you're flying the same segments with the same mileage. That means AQD will be allocated roughly 26% to NRT-YVR, 28% YVR-FRA, 31% FRA-BKK and 16% BKK-NRT (whether you actually earn AQD on those flights depends on them being AC metal or AC codeshares ticketed on 014, but that's how the AQD will be allocated). That split will hold whether you buy the ticket originating in NRT for $8K, YVR for $15K, FRA for $250K or BKK for $1.

That's all the calculator does - allocate the total AQD you give it, based on whatever you paid, among the different flight segments.