Originally Posted by
Jun_Man
They just divide the ticket price by the number of flights to work this out?
Originally Posted by
spherehopper
Isn't it sector mileage divided by total mileage, in which case it would be 1/9th vs 1/16th (sectors on my DONE4). 1/9th base fare is c £450.
Originally Posted by
donotblink
I can't speak for British Airways, which is what I think the original question was about, but in terms of American Airlines crediting AA coded flights to my account, ticketed as part of an around the world ticket, I've had some really bizarre earnings, I've had some super short flights that credit a lot of miles, and some longer flights that barely credit any miles. Most of them were posted as utilizing the fare and not distance.
My experience crediting to AA is that
usually the base fare is pro-rated per segment by the ratio of the segment's distance to the total flown distance, with YQ/YR allocated to specific flights. With AA, flights booked as AA, BA, or IB are
supposed to earn by fare while other oneworld airlines earn by distance, with a table that shows base earnings as a percent of flight distance based on booking inventory plus a cabin bonus that's a percent of base (also based on booking inventory), and for those with status on AA, an elite status bonus that's also a percent of base. Often, even flights on BA or IB do earn by distance (which is typically a lot more than by fare, for an RTW), and sometimes even AA-coded flights earn by distance.