Award Question
Feb 22, 2003 | 5:50 pm
#2
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Join Date: May 1998
Location: Portland OR Double Emerald (QF and AA), DL PM/MM, Starwood Plat
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It happens to be right for your proposed routing based on current schedules. The rule is distance is measured for each flight, which could include a landing but not a transit. If there is a single flight number that will shorten the distance. For example JFK-HKG is the distance, even though it goes JFK-YVR-HKG. You want to go DFW-LAX-HKG-AKL-HKG-LAX-HNL-DFW and every one of those sectors is a separate flight number, thus a separate mileage calculation. All you have to do is to talk AA into making LAX-HNL-DFW a single flight number, and you'd be all set (and spend only a few hours in HNL as a stopover is not allowed without increasing the mileage).
Feb 22, 2003 | 11:03 pm
#3
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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What I don't understand is that I was told I could have a stopover in Hong kong and Hawaii. The agent said, after checking with the reference department, that the total distance would be measured from DFW to AKL and return, even though I was stopping in Hong Kong and backtracking to Hawaii. This is a lot of flying for the OW award.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by number_6:
It happens to be right for your proposed routing based on current schedules. The rule is distance is measured for each flight, which could include a landing but not a transit. If there is a single flight number that will shorten the distance. For example JFK-HKG is the distance, even though it goes JFK-YVR-HKG. You want to go DFW-LAX-HKG-AKL-HKG-LAX-HNL-DFW and every one of those sectors is a separate flight number, thus a separate mileage calculation. All you have to do is to talk AA into making LAX-HNL-DFW a single flight number, and you'd be all set (and spend only a few hours in HNL as a stopover is not allowed without increasing the mileage).</font>
It happens to be right for your proposed routing based on current schedules. The rule is distance is measured for each flight, which could include a landing but not a transit. If there is a single flight number that will shorten the distance. For example JFK-HKG is the distance, even though it goes JFK-YVR-HKG. You want to go DFW-LAX-HKG-AKL-HKG-LAX-HNL-DFW and every one of those sectors is a separate flight number, thus a separate mileage calculation. All you have to do is to talk AA into making LAX-HNL-DFW a single flight number, and you'd be all set (and spend only a few hours in HNL as a stopover is not allowed without increasing the mileage).</font>
Feb 22, 2003 | 11:12 pm
#4
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Join Date: May 1998
Location: Portland OR Double Emerald (QF and AA), DL PM/MM, Starwood Plat
Posts: 19,593
What mileage are you being charged for the OW award? AKL-DFW-AKL would be under 13,881 miles which falls into the 20K miles category while your actually routing is 33,471 miles ... I presume you are being charged the 35K award category.
Feb 22, 2003 | 11:28 pm
#5
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Join Date: Jul 2002
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Well, I havn't been charged yet, but was told it would be at the 20k category. This is why I questioned it. It doesn't sound right.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by number_6:
What mileage are you being charged for the OW award? AKL-DFW-AKL would be under 13,881 miles which falls into the 20K miles category while your actually routing is 33,471 miles ... I presume you are being charged the 35K award category. </font>
What mileage are you being charged for the OW award? AKL-DFW-AKL would be under 13,881 miles which falls into the 20K miles category while your actually routing is 33,471 miles ... I presume you are being charged the 35K award category. </font>