DEN-ORD 13 miles difference UA vs AA
Oct 13, 2010 | 4:54 pm
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DEN-ORD 13 miles difference UA vs AA
I notice UA awards me 888 miles (plus elite bonus) for a DEN-ORD trip but AA gives me 901 (plus elite bonus). Wat?
I guess the bigger question should be why I care.
I guess the bigger question should be why I care.
Oct 13, 2010 | 5:31 pm
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Oct 13, 2010 | 5:33 pm
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At least you aren't being shorted:
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=den-ord
http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=den-ord
Oct 14, 2010 | 7:36 am
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DIA moved from the Stapleton site to the current site back in the 90's. It looks like UA recalculated the distance after the move and AA did not.
Oct 14, 2010 | 8:08 am
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Oct 14, 2010 | 10:15 am
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I believe 900 miles is the threshhold for AA to provide a meal in domestic F at meal-times instead of a snack. So all meal-time ORD-DEN flights receive a full meal rather than a snack.
Oct 16, 2010 | 12:51 am
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Back when Stapleton was open, I was flying often to Seattle, which UA listed as 1,007 miles. This meant I needed 3 of the old upgrade certs to get in first. I kept hoping that DIA would cut it below 1,000, but then I stopped flying To Seattle and never went back to check.
Oct 16, 2010 | 8:45 am
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There will always be a trip just over any cutoff, of course. Unofficially, when they were paper, they'd usually take three AA stickers for the 1,562-mile BOS-DFW trip. In the electronic system, it's always four.