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The Mystery of Sky Miles |
DVA11652
Captain, MD-11
Gold
OLP
Joined on July 22 2013
50 State Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Iditarod Club
B737 100 Club
Quatercentenary Club
US Coastal Club
Twinsburg, OH
475 legs, 1,258.1 hours
6 legs,
8.3 hours online 472 legs,
1,253.7 hours ACARS 3 legs,
3.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
June 20 2024 01:27 ET by Jason Spiskey
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Much like the real world counterpart, the SkyMiles program in DVA seems extremely complicated. The amount of SkyMiles awarded seems to change with each flight. Then you have sky miles then sky medallions. SkyMiles seems to be points for the miles you flew in the trip, plus any additional bonuses. Sky Medallions seems to be some grouped number based on sky miles. For example, I flew a couple of shorter flights earning around 1200 sky miles per flight. The Medallion points though were 500 for each trip.
Now when it comes to ranking up, or earning status, there appears to be two ways to do this. One is based on flight legs, the other on total flight distance. However, I noticed that after doing a couple of 4000nm trips, only a couple hundred points were being reduced to reach the next achievement. I have also noticed that according to flight legs, I have already reached gold status, but I am earning points on silver, and my status is still marked as silver. So something in the program is not computing right.
So after all this, if you have made it this far, my questions are:
Is there a glitch in the program, or is this adding up correctly and even though I have the number of flight legs, I do not have the required number of miles (even though on the description, it says "OR, not "AND)
and the second, what do you get for the Sky Miles? I know in the real world, sky miles is what you earn for using your credit card on qualifying purchases and eventually you can apply for reduced or free tickets and medallion points are what you use on ticket purchases and some other qualifying purchases. Those points go toward your silver, gold, platinum, or diamond status. In DVA, we cannot buy tickets, and I do not see my miles to the next status accelerating.
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DVA10641
Chief Pilot, B767-300
Diamond
OLP
Joined on March 29 2012
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Million Mile Club
US Mountaineer Club
US Coastal Club
Events Quadruple Century
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Flying Colonel
Online Fifteen Century
Everett 1500 Club
Rosemount, MN USA
1,922 legs, 4,306.5 hours
1,800 legs,
3,779.5 hours online 1,902 legs,
4,272.7 hours ACARS 612 legs,
1,211.5 hours event 18 legs dispatched, 157.2
hours
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Posted onPost created on
June 21 2024 01:09 ET by Jason Boche
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Jason Spiskey wrote:
Much like the real world counterpart, the SkyMiles program in DVA seems extremely complicated. The amount of SkyMiles awarded seems to change with each flight. Then you have sky miles then sky medallions. SkyMiles seems to be points for the miles you flew in the trip, plus any additional bonuses. Sky Medallions seems to be some grouped number based on sky miles. For example, I flew a couple of shorter flights earning around 1200 sky miles per flight. The Medallion points though were 500 for each trip.
Now when it comes to ranking up, or earning status, there appears to be two ways to do this. One is based on flight legs, the other on total flight distance. However, I noticed that after doing a couple of 4000nm trips, only a couple hundred points were being reduced to reach the next achievement. I have also noticed that according to flight legs, I have already reached gold status, but I am earning points on silver, and my status is still marked as silver. So something in the program is not computing right.
So after all this, if you have made it this far, my questions are:
Is there a glitch in the program, or is this adding up correctly and even though I have the number of flight legs, I do not have the required number of miles (even though on the description, it says "OR, not "AND)
and the second, what do you get for the Sky Miles? I know in the real world, sky miles is what you earn for using your credit card on qualifying purchases and eventually you can apply for reduced or free tickets and medallion points are what you use on ticket purchases and some other qualifying purchases. Those points go toward your silver, gold, platinum, or diamond status. In DVA, we cannot buy tickets, and I do not see my miles to the next status accelerating.
As far as ranking among the Skymiles Medallion membership, Flight legs and Medallion Miles are all that count. Period. If you're trying to rank up in the Skymiles Medallion membership, there are two methods: flight legs and medallion miles.
Skymiles, on the other hand, are "given out like candy" with a variety of bonuses tacked on based on how the flight leg was operated, but are not redeemable for anything of value at the time of this writing.
Jason BocheChief Pilot, B767-300
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DVA11652
Captain, MD-11
Gold
OLP
Joined on July 22 2013
50 State Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Iditarod Club
B737 100 Club
Quatercentenary Club
US Coastal Club
Twinsburg, OH
475 legs, 1,258.1 hours
6 legs,
8.3 hours online 472 legs,
1,253.7 hours ACARS 3 legs,
3.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
June 21 2024 07:03 ET by Jason Spiskey
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So it is weird. I have been tracking my flights. The other day I had reached Gold status plus 2 flights. Today, I went back to look at my sky miles and 24 flights are missing. It now says I need 22 more flights to reach Gold. Why would it drop like that?
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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
Platinum
OLP
Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club
"Col. Panic" Marietta, GA
2,240 legs, 8,963.0 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online 1,898 legs,
7,756.1 hours ACARS 75 legs,
196.3 hours event 2,276 legs, 9,097.9 hours total 91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
CURRENTLY LOGGED IN
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Posted onPost created on
June 21 2024 10:44 ET by Luke Kolin
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Because I'm trying to fix things. It's not taking rollover miles/legs into account for status upgrades, and because you should have been Gold a while back I cleared things out to allow higher mileage accrual due to the status.
Cheers
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA11652
Captain, MD-11
Gold
OLP
Joined on July 22 2013
50 State Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Iditarod Club
B737 100 Club
Quatercentenary Club
US Coastal Club
Twinsburg, OH
475 legs, 1,258.1 hours
6 legs,
8.3 hours online 472 legs,
1,253.7 hours ACARS 3 legs,
3.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
June 21 2024 11:40 ET by Jason Spiskey
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Ahh! Thank you for fixing it!
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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
Platinum
OLP
Joined on June 10 2001
Event Half Century Club
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett 1500 Club
Bi-Millennium Club
Four Million Mile Club
"Col. Panic" Marietta, GA
2,240 legs, 8,963.0 hours
240 legs,
553.9 hours online 1,898 legs,
7,756.1 hours ACARS 75 legs,
196.3 hours event 2,276 legs, 9,097.9 hours total 91 legs dispatched, 66.4
hours
CURRENTLY LOGGED IN
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Posted onPost created on
June 21 2024 12:10 ET by Luke Kolin
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It's still not fixed yet for you - some other issues have been resolved but I still need to dig into why the automatic upgrade isn't happening.
Cheers
Luke KolinSenior Captain, MD-11
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DVA11652
Captain, MD-11
Gold
OLP
Joined on July 22 2013
50 State Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Iditarod Club
B737 100 Club
Quatercentenary Club
US Coastal Club
Twinsburg, OH
475 legs, 1,258.1 hours
6 legs,
8.3 hours online 472 legs,
1,253.7 hours ACARS 3 legs,
3.8 hours event
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Posted onPost created on
June 21 2024 21:34 ET by Jason Spiskey
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Yea, its saying that I still need to reach the mileage. If you do a long distance flight and ise time accel, do you get less miles. I did a couple of long distance flights and accumulated like 7300 miles, but it only subtracted the medallion miles which only came to 1264 miles.
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