Originally Posted by
BD1959
Wouldn't this flying pattern largely depend on the fare class purchased?
Yes. I forgot to add 'in discount economy' to my sentence
For QF WP you could (just) qualify commuting weekly on discount economy, For BA Gold you could qualify in less time using flexible economy.
I agree, but if you are commuting weekly, in economy class and on a fixed schedule, would you pay for flexible economy? It would have cost me $60,000 a year in flights alone. With BA, if I flew discount economy, I would have had stayed Blue.
It's just my perspective that I do not even feel like I'd flown that much (4 hours a week is really nothing) when I first qualified as a WP - almost all in discount economy. So it seemed really easy. It must seem even easier for people who do not pay for their own flights.