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rujiroj Jan 4, 2011 1:40 pm
eUpgrade Certs distance
 
I'm confused.

I just did a search for YOW-GRU and the total number of miles is 5065, meaning 17 credits for Tango plus.

However, the flight YYZ-GRU (which I thought would put me under the 5000 threshold for lower credits) is 5055 miles.

This is crazy as you can't get a direct YOW-GRU flight, and I'm SURE it's more than 10 miles to Toronto from Ottawa!!

How are they calculating these things? Seems like a way to get us to burn more of our credits....

Plumber Jan 4, 2011 2:01 pm
Originally Posted by rujiroj (Post 15582043)
How are they calculating these things? Seems like a way to get us to burn more of our credits....
BINGO!

ac789 Jan 4, 2011 2:07 pm
Originally Posted by rujiroj (Post 15582043)
I'm confused.

I just did a search for YOW-GRU and the total number of miles is 5065, meaning 17 credits for Tango plus.

However, the flight YYZ-GRU (which I thought would put me under the 5000 threshold for lower credits) is 5055 miles.

This is crazy as you can't get a direct YOW-GRU flight, and I'm SURE it's more than 10 miles to Toronto from Ottawa!!

How are they calculating these things? Seems like a way to get us to burn more of our credits....
For calculation purposes, they use the distance between origin and destination as if there were a nonstop flight (ie no connections). From GRU, Toronto and Ottawa are almost the same distance.


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