Originally Posted by
GUWonder
With BA increasing the number of miles it will issue for economy class flights, any failure to entirely close down the "Euro-cheat" possibilities could well invite an even further increase in the number of US persons who look to "Euro-cheat" to acquire/retain OW Sapphire/Emerald status on the relative ease via BAEC.
Well, that would be hilarious. Having lived two years in Texas and now being based in France, I can testify that the US is by far the easiest place to be based to achieve Gold. May I remind people not aware of the charts that a (often very affordable) F class return from BUF to LAX in First class on AA will earn EC account holders 480 TP, or if you had an extra segment at the Californian end of the trip 600 TP??! Those of us based in continental Europe would need to fork out at least 4 or 5 times more (if not more) to achieve the same.
And again, at the risk of repeating myself for the 200th time, I think some people on this forum vastly overestimate the number of Euro-cheats which presumably account for a few hundreds of people out of x million members at the very most.