Indeed, it will tend to be mostly weekly fliers like our friend nsx.

But what I really meant (but I guess didn't say clearly) is that those who used to qualify for the CP with somewhere around an even mix of flights and partner activity now will have to have way more partner activity just to get there, because they won't be able to take the flight segment count up with partner activity. And thus, for htem, it may be harder.

It's only "just as easy" for those who got almost all their CP credits before from partner activity. Which implies they don't fly paid on WN super often.

It seems to me this either-or arrangment for CP earning discourages non-super-frequent WN flyers from paying for WN flights, especially on trips booked well in advance (and thus at WGA fares), where they're not traveling with tcompanion, because the points they'll earn won't help much toward the CP. They might as well fly someone else (if that's convenient and price compettive, of course) for those flights, and only use WN for the flights where they can make use of the CP they earned through partner activity.

How that helps WN's bottom line I'm not sure.

This RR 2.0 was created to discourage one "unwanted behaviior" -- flying paid on short hops to earn awards on longhauls -- but seems to encourage new "unwanted behavior" because of too many different currencies -- points, tier points, segments -- in an oddly jumbled mix. I know this isn't what most FTers would want, but I don't understand why RR 2.0 didn't make CP a "true" elite benefit by making it be only segments or tier points.