Minimum miles
Oct 15, 2009 | 7:27 am
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Minimum miles
Quick Question:
Is there a minimum number of miles you earn when flying, specifically short sectors in the US on US?
When I called BMI a few weeks ago about a ZRH-VCE booking in Business, I was told that there were no mimimum miles, so ZRH-VCE would have netted me a paltry 452 miles each way (with LH M&M it's 2000 miles flat rate + Executive bonus). Seems a bit unequal.
Is there a minimum number of miles you earn when flying, specifically short sectors in the US on US?
When I called BMI a few weeks ago about a ZRH-VCE booking in Business, I was told that there were no mimimum miles, so ZRH-VCE would have netted me a paltry 452 miles each way (with LH M&M it's 2000 miles flat rate + Executive bonus). Seems a bit unequal.
Oct 15, 2009 | 7:34 am
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I always thought for all flights on non BD metal it was 600 miles? Unless anything has changed recently I'm sure I've been getting a minimumn of 1200 miles for each C sector I've flown lately.
Oct 15, 2009 | 8:17 am
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Providing your ticket is in the 1x earning buckets, on all non-BMI metal flights, it is 600 miles minimum.
Check the redemption charts.
Good if you're segment hopping in the states (and I've had a good amount of UA/US segments post OK in the past.).
Check the redemption charts.
Good if you're segment hopping in the states (and I've had a good amount of UA/US segments post OK in the past.).
Oct 15, 2009 | 8:19 am
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Quick Question:
Is there a minimum number of miles you earn when flying, specifically short sectors in the US on US?
When I called BMI a few weeks ago about a ZRH-VCE booking in Business, I was told that there were no mimimum miles, so ZRH-VCE would have netted me a paltry 452 miles each way (with LH M&M it's 2000 miles flat rate + Executive bonus). Seems a bit unequal.
Is there a minimum number of miles you earn when flying, specifically short sectors in the US on US?
When I called BMI a few weeks ago about a ZRH-VCE booking in Business, I was told that there were no mimimum miles, so ZRH-VCE would have netted me a paltry 452 miles each way (with LH M&M it's 2000 miles flat rate + Executive bonus). Seems a bit unequal.
Here is the table - http://www.flybmi.com/bmi/en-gb/diam...s/flights.aspx
As you can see, there is a minimum of 600 miles (All bmi UK domestic flights and partner flights of less than 600 miles in distance 600 miles earned for each one way)
Thus, ZRH-VCE is 600 mininum miles x 2 for business = 1'200 miles per segment. Not very appealing, compared to the 2'000 miles which you get if you collect with the M&M program @:-)
Oct 15, 2009 | 8:48 am
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Oct 15, 2009 | 10:53 am
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In addition to Tiger_lily's point about redemption rates, don't forget that 1,200 miles is more than 3% of what's needed for BD*G renewal, whereas 2,000 miles only gets you 2% of the way to SEN. It's not an apples-with-apples comparison (SEN lasts longer than BD*G, for example) -- but that's precisely the point.
Oct 15, 2009 | 11:23 am
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In short, you can't base everything on the earn rates alone.
Last edited by FlyingOnceMore; Oct 15, 2009 at 1:04 pm Reason: spellin as usual!
Oct 15, 2009 | 9:02 pm
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All bmi UK domestic flights and partner flights of less than 600 miles in distance: 600 miles earned for each one way
All bmi non UK domestic flights of less than 800 miles in distance: 800 miles earned for each one way
All bmi flights of more than 800 miles in distance and non bmi flights of more than 600 miles in distance travelled: 1 mile earned for each mile travelled
Means you get 600 miles min for everyone else and..
.. 800 min for BD-only non UK domestic flights
Er, what BD domestic flight is non-UK?
Or do they mean international, excluding UK domestic?
Now what about say LH in M or H class, that's a generous 0.5 miles earning - does that mean a minimum of 0.5 x 600 ?
Oct 15, 2009 | 9:40 pm
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http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/bmi-d...s-lounges.html
Oct 15, 2009 | 9:52 pm
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Now what about say LH in M or H class, that's a generous 0.5 miles earning - does that mean a minimum of 0.5 x 600 ?
Oct 16, 2009 | 9:41 am
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Status miles clarification
Slightly OT but I need some clarification on status miles. On BD is miles earned always = status miles earned? So, if I am getting 3x miles on an F ticket, will I also get 3x status miles. Similarly .25x status miles for tickets that award .25x miles?
Oct 16, 2009 | 9:53 am
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If it is a partner that earns status miles (so *A partners rather than DC partners) then you are correct. Status and destination miles earn at the same rate.