Originally Posted by fastair

I understand your math...not a biggie that people don't understand mine...you all are reading into it too much...my math is kindergarden. If you spent $500 for each flight and qualified on segments at 100, but not on miles, then for you to qualify on segments with a 120 segment min, you would spend even more. About 300 posts ago, I was pointing out many examples where segments to very populated cities with LCC presence could be very cheap, while acknowledging that in many smaller markets (i.e. PIA) it can be very expensive. My recently posted math makes no comparison of the sort, only the exact same flying, but with 20 more segments is > the exact same flying with 100 segments. It represents a 20% increase in spend. In every single case, regardless of what cities, as long as the person needs to do the same thing 20% more times to get the same MP designation.

On the good side, for those that need to fly more to hit status....just think, you will get 1MM faster and have more miles to burn, as well as get to hear me say "Thank you" 20% more times as I scan your BP!