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).
On the ocean, distances are calculated slightly different than on land, hence Nautical phrases are applied as opposed to land or Statute terminology. Nautical Mile (nm): A unit of distance used in navigation and based on the length of one minute of arc taken along a great circle. The value 1,852 meters (6,076.1 ft) has been adopted internationally. Statute mile: A unit of distance equal to 1,609 km (0.869 nm, 5,280 ft.). 1 nautical mile = 1.15 statute miles 1 statute mile = 1.6 kilometers. A knot is a unit of speed one nautical mile per hour, which is approximately 1.15 statute miles per hour.