By the way, I realize in this example I'm leaving out the 5,000 forfeited Medallion miles we would
earn on a revenue ticket.
Not exact matches
With American Airlines» current
revenue - based system, you'll
earn American miles based
on how much you pay for your
ticket.
A
revenue ticket on this route would cost about $ 800 and you would
earn 2564 miles for the flight.
That's a 2.2 % rebate
on ALL purchases, it's good
on almost any flight, and you can
earn even more miles since these are
revenue tickets that credit like normal to your preferred carrier.
They're also a great option for
earning miles from paid
tickets on United Airlines, since you will almost always
earn at least one Krisflyer mile for every mile you fly
on United (while United's own program is
revenue based, so you
earn miles based
on the price of your
ticket before taxes and fees.)
Now that miles are
earned on revenue, rather than distance flown, the advantage of being a higher - tier elite is overwhelmed by the disadvantages of booking primarily cheap
tickets.
Revenue based
earning means that frequent flyer miles are
earned based
on the price of the fare rather than the number of miles flown, with multipliers for each level of elite status and for premium cabin
tickets.
Unlike award
tickets,
revenue tickets earn both redeemable miles and elite status miles, which
on American both still mean something.
If the benefits of elite status are something that you value, it may be worthwhile to focus
on earning fixed value points to book
revenue tickets while simultaneously working your way to the status you desire.
-LSB-...] problem with Delta's new
revenue - based mileage
earning (rewarding you points based
on the price of your
ticket instead of the miles you fly) isn't -LSB-...]
With United's new
revenue - based frequent flyer program for
earning miles from flying, you
earn miles based
on the price of your
ticket and not based
on the distance you fly when traveling
on United.
-LSB-...] issuer asked the panel about Delta's move towards a more
revenue - based program (next year miles will be
earned based
on the cost of a
ticket rather than distance flown, and already
earning elite status requires a minimum amount of spend -LSB-...]
Right now, as a 1K member who
earns a 100 % redeemable miles bonus
on revenue tickets, I would
earn (500 +2565 +2565 +2565) x 2 = 12,262 award miles
on the trip.
So with the new
revenue model short haul flights (lets say 300 miles)
on a $ 300 economy
ticket would
earn nearly as many miles as an economy cross country flight under current model?
Revenue based mileage
earning is good for those who primarily fly shorthaul and
on full fare
tickets.
The major changes are that (1) Executive Platinum members now
earn 4 system wide upgrades instead of 8; (2) you need more miles to book award
tickets on certain routes; and (3) the program became
revenue based.