Originally Posted by
Jun_Man
But if it's not consistent amongst all OW airlines, then don't you end up with the potential scenarios that either you are getting benefits or disadvantages on less than (or more than) 100% of what you book? Is that expected? It seems strange to me - my natural assumption is that the airlines all agree, that if you need to make a calculation for a flight that you are responsible for, this is the basis. This could apply to YQ / YR, crediting Avios, or loyalty scheme points, or any other metric.
EDIT: so a straight-line basis (i.e. ticket cost divided by flights) or a weighted basis (segment mileage divided by total mileage multiplied by ticket cost) would both be options, and would be consistent for all OW airlines
I think what you're saying objectively makes sense I have a feeling frankly based off of my experience with AA that many of the loyalty systems may not be engineered or set up to deal with 16 segment trips with lots of carriers and lots of complexity.