Originally Posted by
zhickman
Ahhhh, okay. The wording on their site made me think I'd get 500 miles for each segment, not that the base miles would be 500. Thank you for the clarification, much appreciated.
Final question on domestic vs international. If I'm on an MU flight from PVG to PEK, that is domestic if the flight number is MU. But if I'm on a codeshare flight, say, AF CDG-USA-USA, both flights with AF flight numbers, they're both international? It's all about the marketing carrier and what they consider to be domestic vs international correct?
As far as I know, yes. You can see details for each carrier on the partners page on the FB site and use the calculator when in doubt. It seems that MU uses 310 miles as the minimum.
Originally Posted by
Goldorak
Unless I am mistaken, for domestic flight, the “reference” mileage is not 500 but 400 for some years now. But I know FB website still mentions a minimum reference earning of 500 miles, but this is wrong and misleading. If you use the calculator, it displays correctly 400. And all my recent domestic flights booked in full flex fares earned only 400 status/award miles (+ 400 status bonus award miles as a Platinum member).
Within France and AF/KL-coded, you mean?
I received 500 FB miles for a DL-coded MCO-ATL in Y before the bonus, so for DL at least it is the marketing carrier's country that is used as the reference for domestic vs. international.