Re: Rumour:[Denied by RR] Qantas to ban JQ SYD-MEL pax from F lounges & send to J lou
thanks. if anyone needs MPM data i can now happily help out!
more questions
if SYD-LAX is 8,994, and 25M is 11,242 can the routing can be up to 11,242?
e.g. SYD-NRT MPM = 5,835 & NRT-LAX = 6,549 for a total of 12,384 would be disallowed?
or can i use the cough column total of 10,321 and hence it would be allowed?
similarly, i don't follow how people are managing to get SYD-HKG-LAX on CX booked as it also seems to go over MPM?
if there is a wish to take this offline please let me know and i can remove the post.
cheers
The 25M value is allowed for USDM routings. So in the case of SYD/LAX, that would be 11,242 miles.
You do
not add the MPMs of your intermediate stops to make the "total" MPM of your itinerary. The MPM is determined between origin and destination. An en route stopover does not increase (or decrease) the MPM.
cough is the coughulative mileage (not MPM) of the proposed routing. If the final cough value is less than the corresponding 25M value, you're within the limits.
As I said, however, do note that if some of your intermediate stops (i.e. intermediate cough values) exceed the MPM as if you were routing from origin to that stop, the agents may reject it. This is much more subjective, however, than the overall MPM (it
may be "bypassed" by trying a different agent). It's only likely to be an issue if your intermediate routing is to some far flung place but your overall itinerary is still within MPM.
MPM is something that agents can and do check, but like everything which isn't bolted down into a system check (i.e. nearly everything in USDM), it is not exact nor is it necessarily checked all the time. People are generally finding that MPM is checked frequently, but that doesn't mean that some errant itineraries will fall through the cracks (like SYD-HKG-LAX, which technically breaks the MPM). The overall observation, however, is that of the successful itineraries booked, not many of them exceed MPM checks.
People will still try to book itineraries that break the rules (including MPM). Some rules are more enforced than others. If you try to book an itinerary which breaks the rules, all power to you, but you should be prepared for a "no" answer (and if you try hanging up and calling again, many times).
