Differant Miles for round trip
Jun 3, 2024, 5:59 am
#1
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Differant Miles for round trip
Recently flew SFO-CLT-ROA. The flights between the same cities had different miles awarded. SFO-CLT 5085 miles, CLT - SFO 4340 miles. CLT - ROA 544 miles, ROA - CLT 456 miles. Assuming the cities are the same distance between cities why different amount of miles awarded. These are base miles. This was a paid for ticket.
Jun 3, 2024, 6:02 am
#2
Join Date: Feb 2003
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Recently flew SFO-CLT-ROA. The flights between the same cities had different miles awarded. SFO-CLT 5085 miles, CLT - SFO 4340 miles. CLT - ROA 544 miles, ROA - CLT 456 miles. Assuming the cities are the same distance between cities why different amount of miles awarded. These are base miles. This was a paid for ticket.
Jun 3, 2024, 6:14 am
#3
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$2007, paid first class. The flights are different fare classes, D, M, R and R. The flight from CLT - ROA has no first class the flight from ROA - CLT did. This makes sense. I never really looked at how miles are awarded. Thanks for the response.
Jun 3, 2024, 7:56 am
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Join Date: Jul 2021
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The math roughly checks out with it being 5 miles per dollar spent. D and R are Business fares, while M is economy. The difference is based on the cost of the overall ROA/SFO itinerary (based on fare bucket) and then split over the individual segments using some calculation.