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May 2, 2018 | 3:29 pm

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Dave Noble

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Originally Posted by dave_261

Booked my wife and daughter (both w/ no status) on a trip through AA Vacations, both on same PNR.

When miles posted, both passengers had same amount of EQM's, segments and base award miles. However,
- Daughter's EQD's were caculated as 'distance- special fare'
- Wife's EQD's were calculated as 'distance- data unavailable'

The net is that my daughter got about 50% more EQD's than wife. Not a huge deal, but it pushed her to gold status which then gave her the gold mileage bonus (so she earned about 40% more award miles than wife).

This doesn't sound right since "data unavailable" has a higher EQD earning than "special fare" except for Q and O classes where they are the same; unless they were in different booking classes, the "data unavailable" booking should not have been able to have a lower earning

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