Originally Posted by
orbitmic
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.
Sorry to appear geeky but would it? I looked it up and the flights normally require a transfer at either ORD or DFW. Neither ORD nor DFW is more than 2000 miles from LAX or from BUF; therefore in first class these flights would earn 60 points in First. So the total is 4x60=240 TPs.
Have I got this wrong?