Originally Posted by AmericanFtWorthTX
DFW-SAP-Man, just remember it's 10,000 Q points not miles to get PLT. Depending on what fare you get it may be as many as 20,000 miles. Granted that short hall flights get 500 miles if less then 500 miles and Q points. On that note, one flight posted 500 Q points when it was a discount fare while others posted less. It's something that I don't care to question just in case the 500 Q was an error!
A lot of my trips are SAN-LAX-XXX and back, so I fly the 109-mile route between SAN and LAX a lot. It turns out you do get 500 points for it, at least on a 1:1 fare. However, you can't get
more than 500 points, even on 1.5:1 fares.
I recently flew SAN-LAX-KOA and back on a B fare. I got the 1.5 points per mile on the LAX-KOA segments, but only 500 points on the SAN-LAX segments.