Bereavement fares have slowly been disappearing in the last decade as airlines try to cut costs. As booking flights has also moved online, it makes finding the fares even more difficult because many require phone calls. Even for those airlines that do offer those discounted fares, it may not be the cheapest option. Not all airlines offer bereavement fares. 2  Even a discounted bereavement fare may not be the cheapest option. 3  Most fares of this nature need to be made via phone, so be prepared to talk to the airline.
With qualifiers, mile is also used to describe or translate a wide range of units derived from or roughly equivalent to the Roman mile, such as the nautical mile (now 1.852 km exactly), the Italian mile (roughly 1.852 km), and the Chinese mile (now 500 m exactly).
To convert from nautical to statute miles: The factor 1.15 may be used, but again, it is not precise. (6076.1 divided by 1.15) = 5,283 feet (3.565..feet more than 1 statute mile). Using a precomputed table (such as Bowditch's Table 20) will result in the more precise answers.o reverse the conversion, statute miles times 7, then divide by 8. A Nautical Mile is 1/60th of a degree or one minute of latitude. Be sure you know what distance measurement is being used on the charts you are working with. There are four common measures of distance used on charts: