Calculation of Indirect Flight Miles
Feb 6, 2004 | 10:16 am
#1
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Calculation of Indirect Flight Miles
Hi
I'm travelling on LH726 which apparently goes something like MUC-PEK-CAN (Munich/Beijing/Guangzhou). I won't be getting off the flight in Beijing -- do you know how BD calculate the miles? My ticket will show (I think) MUC-CAN.
Do I get the MUC-CAN miles or the MUC-PEK + the PEK-CAN miles (which is a difference of about 1000)?
Thanks
I'm travelling on LH726 which apparently goes something like MUC-PEK-CAN (Munich/Beijing/Guangzhou). I won't be getting off the flight in Beijing -- do you know how BD calculate the miles? My ticket will show (I think) MUC-CAN.
Do I get the MUC-CAN miles or the MUC-PEK + the PEK-CAN miles (which is a difference of about 1000)?
Thanks
Feb 6, 2004 | 10:35 am
#2
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: London. Edinburgh, Cornwall
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Hmmm. My recent credit for NZ001 LHR-AKL was about 11,400 miles, whereas Milemarker shows 11,900 for LHR-LAX + LAX-AKL, which is how the flight is operated. So that would appear to be a direct calculation because of the single flight number. Not sure if this is firm policy though.
One possible way around this would be to credit one of the sectors to your account, leave the next one blank and then send in the boarding card retrospectively to see if an agent simply credits them separately.
One possible way around this would be to credit one of the sectors to your account, leave the next one blank and then send in the boarding card retrospectively to see if an agent simply credits them separately.
Feb 6, 2004 | 10:59 am
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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When I flew YYZ-DUB with a stop in SNN it was credited as a single segement with what I think was the YYZ-DUB mileage rather then YYZ-SNN-DUB (there's not much in the difference). That was a single plane with one boarding pass and we didn't get off the plane.
Feb 6, 2004 | 5:22 pm
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Generally, my understanding is that if the flight number changes, you get miles for the segments. If the flight number doesn't change, you get the miles as if it had been direct. YMM(of course)V. In other words, wot ajamieson said.
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Feb 7, 2004 | 12:36 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Wingnut:
dup (in a vain attempt to catch up with ajamieson's 1K milestone, of course...)
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dup (in a vain attempt to catch up with ajamieson's 1K milestone, of course...)
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I notice a few edits recently as well.. does that rack the counter up too ??!!
edited to see whether the post count rises !!
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edited again to say that it doesn't
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