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Old Oct 11, 2019 | 12:01 pm
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Originally Posted by RanChin
I think this has to do with differential earning rates at different tiers in the Flying Returns program when flying on AI metal.
Of course... but AI knows your flight distance and the booking class (i.e. earning %) when you select a particular fare type saver/flexi etc. So instead of saying for a saver ticket you’ll earn 34% to 57% which makes no sense whatsoever, they can simply say you’ll earn 4,234 miles for this trip. It’s easy for them to calculate and present this at the time of booking.

I think the bigger problem is... that because they have different mile earnings for every class of travel instead of consolidating them under the 3 main fare buckets, you can effectively earn different miles amounts despite paying the same cost of the ticket. And I suspect that’s an illegal thing for any airlines to do.
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