Originally Posted by
nightkhan
Has anyone had RT flights recently where EQM/RDM were calculated by both the fare method and distance method? As in one leg is calculated by fare, the return leg by distance?
I just flew LGA-MIA-LGA this weekend and checked my account this morning and this is what I see:
AMERICAN AIRLINES 1389 Y LGA MIA Method: Fare
8/19/16
EQM/EQS 1,097 / 1
Base Miles 625
Bonus Miles 375
Total Award Miles 1,000
AMERICAN AIRLINES 1367 Y MIA LGA Method: Distance
8/21/16
EQM/EQS 1,646 / 1
Base Miles 1,097
Bonus Miles 659
Total Award Miles 1,756
I'm currently Plat, total fare for this flight was $337.20, no taxes or fees. Error from AA's side?
Originally Posted by
SpammersAreScum
1097 appears to be the actual miles, so even though they said "Method: Fare", EQM was based on distance, which is course as it should be. And the 1646 is 1.5x that, so you were apparently in a full econ fare class on the return.
"total fare for this flight was $337.20, no taxes or fees" puzzles me. There are always taxes, so I assume you mean $337.20 is the base fare, not the total?
Was there anything else going on here? IRROPS on the return, maybe?
Looking at the outbound, if the method is fare, then RDM calc is $$ based. The base miles, which should be eligible fare portion * 5, is 625, which means that part of the base fare is $125.
The total fare would have had to have included the $5.60/direction 9/11 fee ($11.20 total), 7.5% tax, US segment tax, and passenger facility charge. The last two on the MIA-LGA-MIA route are $8 and $9, respectively. That leaves the return fare of $162.
If the return had been calculated based on fare, the OP would've earned 810 base miles, 486 bonus, for a total of 1296 miles (instead of 1756).