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Old Dec 9, 2009 | 10:16 pm
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transportbiz
 
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Originally Posted by Benjh
Actually, no. Let's suppose you're a business traveler, and your employer pays for all your professional flights. For example, you could be one of TWA FAN 1 crew he spends $60k/year on. When the time comes to take your wife on a Hawaiian vacation, your 4 SWUs enable you to buy discounted coach tickets and still fly in first or BF (provided there's availabilty). That's pretty nice, especially now that you're used to flying BF.

I mean, isn't that the case for most FTers? Don't most of us earn miles on our job to spend on our wives (myself not included)?

"I am a little surprised no one has seen the flaw in" your analysis.

Granted, CO is then not rewarding the spender, i.e. the employer who spends 30k on a single employee.
Then the problem with your analysis is that I wasn't even discussing SWUs. They are NOT are part of the program I was discussing in any way, shape, or form. They are SEPERATE of the new "invitatational status level". I get the SWU's at 100K EQM's period, end of discussion, that was not part of my issue or analysis at all.

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