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Mar 9, 2007 | 12:34 pm

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JohnneeO

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Originally Posted by UA_Eagle

Also it allow the airlines to offer fewer miles to the flyer, since they count these flights as one "flight", despite having to change plane type and gates.

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Originally Posted by Flaflyer

I feel this would only apply to short hops where the 500 mile min per segment is more than the actual miles.

Dig out a map, draw a straight line (as the non-stop flies) from EZE to LAX, and according to http://www.geobytes.com/CityDistanceTool.htm, the distance is 6126. For the separate legs of EZE-ATL, and ATL-LAX, the distances are 5021 & 1938, for a total of 6959.

Essentially, you would only earn 6126 miles for the 'direct' routing through ATL, instead of the mileage of 6959 you could receive by earning credit for each leg. The difference is 833 miles. YMMV.

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