Originally Posted by
mahasamatman
I think he means base miles. 915 for SFO-HKG versus 19,965 PVG-SFO. Miles are based on fare paid - the SFO-HKG flight was much cheaper, and therefore earned far fewer miles.
Well, base miles are calculated from the PQD, so that's really the same thing. And $183 is not a reasonable SFO-HKG C fare on its own -- the only way that you'd expect to see that would be if there was a strange allocation somewhere else (or if the 75K cap were hit).