Originally Posted by
Richelieu
I don't get how you reach 225% : you're flying 70% TG, so there is 200% for Business class on any fare bucket and no Executive bonus, or LH/LX 30% of the time and you'd get a 25% bonus but 100%-200% depending on fare. So if you're flying 70% TG, and all your flights in Z on LH/LX, you'd get an average of 23,100 miles per round trip. If you were flying all your flight in full fare business, your average would be 24,900.
The award/paid flight ratio would be 5.42 to 5.84, dropping to 4.37 to 4.06 if you can generally find companion awards to your destination.
Aeroplan is stingy, but not that stingy. The COS bonus is 25% for Business and 50% for first on Lufthansa and Thai (among many others). The true ratio is 7.0.
You didn't mention A3: is it a deliberate choice to avoid the programme of a very small airline that could go the way of the bmi?
Their earn/burn ratio would be 4.58, better than LH unless you're sure you can score companion awards more than 75% of the time.
Indeed. One should calculate as you did for their planned flights and redemption goals.
indeed we mostly 2 or more, so mostly could use partner award ( if availability on LH/LX is given ).
I thought in M&M a paid flight on TG C,D,J,Z credits 200 % + 25 % for SEN, so totally 225% ( or Iam wrong ? ).
The first pax needs 135k + partner needs 67,5k = 202,5k for 2 pax
6000 * 2,25 = 13.500 * 2 = 27.000 ( in real it comes more to 30k )
So using SEN partner award it would be less than 4 paid flights for 1 free.
ANA also not that bad, earn factor 150 % and award flight until 14.000 flown miles cost 90k. Also here I not have any clue about status bonus.
TAP has good earning rates, but the free flights are simply to expensive.
Another question would be, that some FFP's not charge fuel YQ ! I think US does not. Together with the oportunity to buy miles, this also not that bad.