Originally Posted by norf9

Following up on this, if you fly deep discount on Kingfisher within India, you only earn 10% miles (not sure about points). Their shortest flight is Bengaluru to Mysooru which is 86 miles, so you earn a paltry 8.6 miles per flight. So if you follow that up with 4 segments on ORD-MKE, you will end up with:
9*96+3*34+500=1,466 EQM
Assuming the 10% also applies to EQP, you can shrink this down to 1,216 EQP