Originally Posted by
emcampbe
huh? Confused.
The Fare branding is just ACs way of oversimplifying what you get - mileage (through Aeroplan, at least), change fees, standby options, etc. it has nothing to do with how the fare gets credited to MP.
A tango fare fare doesn’t have a set amount earned through MP - but it is based on the, say, K fare that happens to be Tango. Up until several months ago, when specific fare classes on AC were tied to he fare branding, yiu could say, for example, that a domestic Tango fare earns 25% in MP (or whatever). Now, you can’t and can just say a K fare earns that, even though it could be a a Tango or Flex (...or whatever).
Since they introduced the new branded fares a Tango fare does earn a set amount of miles in MP regardless of the fare class....but they don't tell you what that amount is anywhere. So if you book a Y fare in tango, AC will change the fare class before posting to partner program so that you do not earn 100% mileage.