Well, if you believe you would earn more status miles with LH then at least they have succeeded in favourably confusing you with their new system.
Due to the feeder flights, you will earn actually 17881 status miles with LH and 20281 status and award miles with SK.
I predict that LH will listen to NewbieRunner and other customer's demands and reduce the earning of status miles to 25% (like TK) on non-LH flights in the next round of enhancements.
Originally Posted by
NewbieRunner
I recently booked a Business return MAN-TYO and had the following options:
MAN-ZRH-NRT (LX)
HND-MUC-MAN (LH)
Books into P on all legs
2,166.08 GBP
Status miles 16,739 miles including executive bonus
Award miles (est) 11,610 miles
or
MAN-CPH-NRT (SK)
NRT-CPH-MAN (SK)
Books into Z on all legs
1,803.21 GBP
Status and award miles (est) 16,286 miles
Z fare on SK earns 2,000 M&M miles on European flights and 1.5 x distance on international flights.
For 350 GBP less but without executive bonus I will collect about 450 fewer status miles and 4,600 more award miles if I fly on SK. With LH's 150% award miles promo I might actually get a similar number of award miles whether I fly LH/LX or SK but I will still be saving 350 GBP by not flying on LX/LH.
So this is what the revenue based system has done to me..