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Calculate Miles Earned On Partner Airline
I’m trying to figure out how many miles one would earn after flying business class on Air France from SFO-CDG-MXP, then returning on business class with KLM from AMS to SFO.
I’ve looked at Alaska’s page (link below) but am not quite sure what it means.
[URL]https://www.alaskaair.com/content/mileage-plan/how-to-earn-miles/airline-partners/klm.aspx[/URL]
The goal would be to credit both flights to Alaska Airlines
The webpage you’ve linked to indicates that you’ll earn 100% of the miles flown, plus a 25% bonus for flying business class. So you’ll actually earn 125% of of the miles you fly. You’ll notice that some of the cheaper economy classes don’t earn 100% of miles flown but business class will always earn at least 100%, regardless of airline, and often you get bonus miles for purchasing a premium cabin seat.
AMS-SFO is 5474 miles per gcmap.com. So you’d earn 125% of the miles flown, or 6842 miles.
Air France earns the same bonus so your outbound leg is 5956 miles. With the 125% bonus you’d earn 7445 miles.
(all miles approximate!)
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