Shenzhen Airlines PhoenixMiles Calculator

How this calculator works

Choose your airports and your booking class. The calculator measures each flight's great-circle distance with the same airport data as our Great Circle Distance Calculator, converts it to kilometres and multiplies it by the class percentage. A flight earns at least the minimum for its class: 800 km in Business, 500 km in Premium Economy and Economy. Each flight also earns the class's qualifying segments. Choose Round trip to count the same flights back the other way. Enter the qualifying kilometres and segments in your PhoenixMiles account to see how far you are from the next card; the flight itself is not added, because the programme does not say whether a flight's qualifying kilometres equal the mileage it earns.

What the inputs mean

• Airports: where you fly from, where you fly to, and any connections (add a connection for each extra flight). Each flight earns on its own.
• Booking class: the letter on your Shenzhen Airlines ticket. The table (valid from 29 October 2023) prints two values for classes J, R, B and U, for example 300% / 250% for J. It labels the columns Mainland China and International and Regional, so this calculator reads the first value as a flight with both airports in Mainland China and the second as any other flight, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Check your ticket if the difference matters.
• Booking classes I, X and N: listed at 0%, with no qualifying segments, so they earn nothing.
• Your PhoenixMiles card: Silver, Gold and Platinum members earn 25%, 30% and 50% extra mileage on flights by Air China group carriers, as spendable mileage only. The programme does not say whether that percentage applies to the distance flown or to the mileage after the class percentage, so it is shown as a note and not added.
• Credit this flight to: you can credit the flight to United MileagePlus or Aeroplan instead of PhoenixMiles. Choose one to see what the flight earns there, by route and booking class, with your status in that program. The full tables: United MileagePlus on Shenzhen Airlines, Aeroplan on Shenzhen Airlines.

Distance, minimum and rounding

The mileage for a flight depends on the distance as calculated by IATA, in kilometres, and the booking class percentage. This calculator uses the great-circle distance in miles from our airport data and converts it to kilometres, so a flight can differ from the programme's own figure by a few kilometres. The programme does not say how it rounds; this calculator drops fractions of a kilometre on each flight. It does not say whether the qualifying kilometres for a card equal the mileage earned, so this calculator does not count them. Flights on Star Alliance partners earn by the operating airline's own rules, which this calculator does not apply.

Qualifying kilometres, segments and cards

PhoenixMiles is one programme across the Air China group, so the card criteria are Air China's. A card is earned in the previous 12 months by either the qualifying kilometres or the qualifying segments: Silver 40,000 km or 25 segments, Gold 80,000 km or 40 segments, Platinum 160,000 km or 90 segments. To renew, Silver needs 35,000 km or 23 segments, Gold 70,000 or 36, Platinum 145,000 or 80. Elite bonus mileage does not count. The criteria can change at any time.

Example

A 700-mile (1,127 km) flight in class Y earns 1,127 km x 110% = 1,239 km and 1.1 qualifying segments. The same flight in class J earns 300% = 3,381 km and 3 segments when both airports are in Mainland China, or 250% = 2,817 km and 2.5 segments when one of them is not, for example Hong Kong. A 241 km flight in class J earns the 800 km minimum.

More on Shenzhen Airlines

The Shenzhen Airlines fare chart lists every booking class with its percentages, qualifying segments and minimum, and the card criteria. The same programme is covered for Air China flights by the Air China PhoenixMiles calculator. Source: Shenzhen Airlines: the mileage accrual calculator on its PhoenixMiles member portal, and Air China's PhoenixMiles pages: the kilometer accrual and elite member pages and the English mileage accrual calculator.

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