Originally Posted by gglave
My wife is of the opinion that, at least in Canada, you don't earn additional segments on an AC flight if you could have done the route with fewer segments. i.e. if you go YVR => YYC => YYZ instead of a nonstop you don't earn the extra segment(s).
Is this or is this not the case? Doesn't seem worth the effort if you don't earn the segments?
Your wife needs to be put over the knees of some FTers, and shown how it is really done.
I've flown 3 segments on the same flight #. A total of 1500 miles where I would have otherwise earned 600ish. You need 3 seperate boarding passes to make this work.
As for the OP, some of my preffered routes are:
YVR-YEG-YYC-LAX
LAX-YYZ-YVR-HKG
When travelling to YYG, it it's in J I prefer to route through YHZ. When in Y it's n/s to/from YUL or YYZ.