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Old Dec 1, 2010 | 9:56 am
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mrswirl
 
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Originally Posted by 5khours
Why is it fair that someone potentially gets 1k for spending maybe 50 hours in flight, when the EQM fliers have to spend at least 200 hours. If we're talking fair, they ought to make the EQS requirement 400 not 120.... add in the jet lag and it probably ought to be 1000.... that would be fair
Let's see... this year I had 104 segments with an average flight distance of about 1000 miles. That's rougly 2 1/2 hours per flight for a total of 260 inflight hours - not counting time between connections, delays, etc.

Yet, under the new rules, I no longer qualify for 1K. How is that fair?

You seem to think 100 segments is easy... you've obviously never done it yourself.
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