Originally Posted by
lamphs
....With regards to the 16 segments, say my goal was to have a stopover in Washington, DC and a stopover in Appleton, WI. The only available OW route is WAS-ORD-ATW via AA. Does this count as one segment since I am only connecting in ORD? Or is it two segments? EDIT - or maybe this counts as a 'free' flight segment?
Is there a tool to determine what is the best FF flyer program to credit the flights? I figure if I am going to do this, I may as well benefit with OW status with some airline.
Every flight number counts as a segment. As does "ground" segments
FFP's with earning based status are hard to calculate
AA has dedicated rules and also a thread in the AA subforum
Some ffp's require X flights on own airline. AA does not. X often 4
Short flights in DONE's are poor value: a waste of a segment. Usually better to buy for cash. The same segment could be used on a 5000 mile flight
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