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Old Jun 17, 2011 | 9:39 am
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Originally Posted by Globaliser
This was one of the nails in the coffin for our use of QFFF. It affected my companion more than me, because I usually get the opportunity to do a couple of SYD-CBR-SYD runs a year (for real, not just for the ~).

I pointed out to QF that one LHR-SIN-LHR round-trip (two sectors) nets a lot more revenue for QF than SYD-CBR-SYD-CBR-SYD (which is about AUD 260, if you're lucky), and so they might want to think about some discretion on this.

But, as usual with QFFF, it fell on deaf ears.
True, I travel Downunder not regulary, sometimes twice per year and sometime not. Getting SCs in Europe is quite easy. But the 4 Segment rule is quite foolish.
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