Originally Posted by
smackfu
Interesting. So to properly use a business-class two-zone award (10,500 pts), you would need to take a route that had you switch trains at one of those cities that's on a zone border?
There are no points on zone boundaries where two trains with business class meet either. The business class two-zone award is presumably only used when at least one segment involved is in (long distance) coach, which presumably explains why the markup for it is relatively low.