Originally Posted by
george 3
Fare codes are relative route to route. Pricing of fare codes is variable depending on many factors. A discount economy from LGA to CLE may be more expensive than a more full fare economy from JFK to Tampa. Thus you may see a higher spend for a lot less miles and this new procedure compensates for this.
Indeed. Please, AA, bring on a revenue component.
Originally Posted by
swajames
The sooner AA brings a revenue component the better. Awarding just 1.5 EQP for some of the higher premium fares is insane.
No, what is insane is that I can fly US West Coast to Central America/Caribbean on a $600-$900 RT business class fare and rack up about
11,000 EQPs or I can fly DFW-ATL for $950 RT (recent example, not full fare, think it was a K fare, definitely not a 1.5x bucket) and earn a paltry 1,462 EQPs.
At least $50 more spend going into the AA treasury, massively higher profit margin for AA, and yet ~ 9,500 fewer points earned towards elite status.
Other example: DFW-RIC in unrestricted (but not Y26) coach for somewhere around $1200RT and netting 2,316 EQPs.
There are a lot of routes out there like the above.
Originally Posted by
oopsz
Agree. Full fare is crazy on some routes and it's a little galling that I could rack up 10k EQPs for the same cost as a refundable 900 mile eagle flight.
AA would be much better served to ditch the EQP concept entirely and replace it with EQR (elite qualifying revenue). The current EQP system is way out of touch with economic reality - there's just no consistent relationship between fare class and revenue benefit to AA.